Does the trailing slash really matter in terms of passing link juice?

[adriandg]

Does the trailing slash matter?  Say my website resolves to:

link to: http://www.domain.com/

So if a user went to link to: http://www.domain.com it would 301 them to

link to: http://www.domain.com

Then does a link to: link to: http://www.domain.com**/**

pass the same amount of link juice as a link to: http://www.domain.com

?

[SCW]

From Google's perspective on the matter, both versions of the url are treated equally; therefore, I can't surmise why they wouldn't pass the same amount or link juice.

An excellent discussion regarding the the two versions of the url may be treated differently by redirects or how they may effect user experience can be found on the Webmaster Central Blog:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html

Hope this helps.