Do trailing / in URLs matter?

[TheOceanAgency]

I was wondering if search engines see duplicate content on two different URLs if the content is available via www.xyz.com/services or www.xyz,com/services/

[Jinx14678]

Hi,

Technically yes,

Be sure to back up your .htaccess before trying but this below should remove the trailing slash (by redirecting / to non slash), and fix duplicate if you have it.  But like i said back up first just in case

#remove trailing slashes RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

EDIT

Since I am not full aware of your actual situation... Below is if you only want to redirect trailing slash on URI's that are past root (sub directories redirected, but www.example.com/ is left alone

<code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

[BethA]

We have a similar thread going, and I believe it may help resolve some of your questions concerning the trailing slash:  http://www.seomoz.org/q/trailing-slash-and-rel-canonical