Redirect non slash to slash

[Pack]

Hello SEO gurus

We have an issue here ( www.xyz.com.au) is having 200 responses www.xyz.com.au and www.xyz.com.au/ ( when i ran the crawl test i found this )

We have been advised to do a 301 from non slash to slash ( as our other pages are showing up with slash ) for the consistency we decided to go with this but our devs just couldnt do it.

Error is - redirect loop and this site is a wordpress one

Can anyone help us with this issue?

Help is much appreciated.

[MoosaHemani]

The idea of adding a permanent redirect is nice as this will help you get links on one version only and Google will not find any technical duplicate content on your site. As far as the redirect loop problem, here is the solution that might help you.

http://www.oxhow.com/how-to-solve-this-webpage-has-a-redirect-loop-problem/

Also run the alpha and see if others are facing the same problem.

#justathought

[DirkC]

For the redirect check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21417263/htaccess-add-remove-trailing-slash-from-url :

Right below the "RewriteEngine On" line in your .htaccess file, add:

<code>RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteRule^(.*[^/])$ /$1/[L,R=301]</code>

You also have redirect chains on your site:

Example page: http://www.youpack.com.au/shipping-container-sales-commercial/ links to  http://www.youpack.com.au/?p=564 301 redirects to http://www.youpack.com.au/the-low-down-on-self-pack-removals/ 301' redirects to http://www.youpack.com.au/stamp-the-low-down-on-self-pack-removals-2/ = error 404

Dirk

[dexport]

Hello Mozzers,

I've the same problem but just the other way round and was wondering about the effects additionally: if I implement a redirect from a slash url to a non-slah url, will this affect my SEO visibility within Google? If so, is there another / better solution?

Many thanks in regards!