301 redirect adding trailing slash to url

[TimHolmes]

I am looking into a .htacess file for a site I look after and have noticed that the urls are all 301 redirecting from a none slash directory to a trailing slashed directory/folders.

e.g. www.domain.com/folder gets 301 redirected to www.domain.com/folder/

Will this do much harm and reduce the effect on the page and any links pointing to the site be lessened?

Secondly I am not sure what part of my htaccess is causing the redirect.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.co.uk [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R,NE]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.php
RewriteRule ^(.)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

or could a wordpress ifmodule be causing the problem?

Any info would be apreciated.

[rjonesx. 0]

This is default behavior and you should keep it. It won't harm your rankings at all. I am not sure where the redirect is occurring in your install, but I wouldn't worry about it at all.

Here is a write-up on it from Google.

[CleverPhD]

Agreed.  Keep it.  My only other question would be - do you have any internal links on your site that link to the non-slashed version of the folder?  Get those fixed/cleaned up wherever possible.   Your Moz crawl report should find any of those for you.

[Toddfoster]

Hi Tim,

I was literally working on this exact issue with a client yesterday. There is absolutely nothing about this to worry about. Although auditing programs like Screaming Frog will bring this up as an "issue", a manual look reveals nothing to be concerned about.

The only issue you might have is, as CleverPhD pointed out, if you have any internal linking that might be sent to the "incorrect" url, that would be something to fix. Otherwise, this is totally fine.

Best regards,

Rob

[TimHolmes]

Cheers all for the responses, this was pretty much what I was hoping to hear....

Thanks

Tim