Homepage canonical url with splash or not with splash? All other links are without but logo links with splash

[advertisingcloud]

Hello,

There is so much contradicting information about the homepage canonical URL. Many websites have all the links without the trailing splash but their homepage URL still contains the splash. Now Moz is an example with this. Their urls don't have the splash, and their canonical does not have the splash.

Why is it so and why so much different ways people have it?

[ThompsonPaul]

The base domain URL is a special case, @advertisingcloud. Whether it ends in a slash or not doesn't matter. Both versions are functionally equivalent to each other and will not create duplicate content (in fact, it's not possible to redirect one version to the other - you'll get a redirect loop.)

Consistency is always best, so I always use the full version with the slash (for other technical reasons). But it really does't matter if you mix them, which is why you'll see such varied usage on the web.

Hope that helps?

Paul

[advertisingcloud]

Thanks, helps a lot.