Are permalinks ending in / different than permalinks with nothing at the end?

[howlusa]

In my Google Analytics, I have different stats for what I think is the same page, win-a-party and win-a-party/

I searched all over for the win-a-party/ page and I couldn't find it anywhere. Why would it be tracking these differently? Should I set a 301 from win-a-party/ to win-a-party?

[Kara.Wallace]

I am guessing you must have accidentally set up a link to /win-a-party/ instead of /win-a-party.

Search engines used to associate paths ending in / as a directory and paths not ending in / a file.

This is a great Google Webmaster Blog article on the subject.

I would suggest you either 301 redirect it to the preferred version OR you use a tool like ScreamingFrog to find the incorrectly setup link/navigation and make the actual fix.

Hope this helps.

Mike