Why are my URL's with a trailing slash still getting indexed even though they are redirected in the .htaccess file?

[mkhGT]

My .htaccess file is set up to redirect a URL with a trailing / to the URL without the /. However, my SEOmoz crawl diagnostics report is showing both URL's. I took a look at my Google Webmaster account and saw some duplicate META title issues. Same thing, Google Webmaster is showing the URL with the trailing /.

My website was live for about 3 days before I added the code to the .htaccess file to remove the trailing /. Is it possible that in those 3 days that both versions were indexed and haven't been removed even though the .htaccess file has been updated?

[Eblan]

Are there any other images or links pointing to your urls with a / at the end? I would take a look just to make sure.

You can request an index removal with Google's Webmasters Tools.

Go to Optimization>Remove URL and type the address you wish removed. I did this with my .html urls after I uploaded my .htaccess file and worked like a charm.

Could you write the urls of the pages you are getting a warning for duplicate content? It looks like you might need some tweaks to your .htaccess file to redirect those pages to avoid having duplicate content.

[irvingw]

check the following and make sure they are without trailing slashes

sitemap.xml link

internal linking urls

canonical tag urls