How do you handle URLs with slashes?

[tiffany1103]

I asked this question before, but with a different scenario.  I upgraded my plan to a more advanced cart and all of my URLs changed about 1.5 years ago.  I knew nothing about redirects and such, so none of that was done.

Basically, let's say my site was: http://www.abc.com, but when people actually visit my site, they are directed to https://www.abc.com/. I have asked my host about redirecting and she that it is not possible.  In the past, the link shared has been just www.abc.com .  Will this hurt my ranking?

My second question is ...let's say I have a link  http://www.abc.com/blog , but now, the link is http://www.abc.com/blog/ . Will I be affected, since all my old links omit the slash?

[benji1]

QUESTION 1:

Setup a catchall .htaccess 301 redirect to point http:// to https://

(So the age of your page is transferred to the https:// pages)

QUESTION 2:

In short: No

But

It wouldn't hurt to make sure you have a canonical tag on all your pages pointing to the preferred url structure

For example these 2 pages load 1 page (and both URLs work):

http://singlespeedbikes.co/abacabb-2-0
http://singlespeedbikes.co/abacabb-2-0/

But the cannonical tag on this page tells Google which URL it should index to avoid confusion with duplicate content etc, example:

<link href="[http://singlespeedbikes.co/abacabb-2-0](view-source:http://singlespeedbikes.co/abacabb-2-0)" rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" />