Canonical question - Would this create some sort of crawler redirection loop?

[Evosite1]

What happens if a canonical link, links to the url with / but the main url does not have the /

For example:

rel="canonical" href="https://www.exampleURL.co.uk/">

Main URL - https://www.exampleURL.co.uk (without the /)

301 Redirect https://www.exampleURL.co.uk/ to https://www.exampleURL.co.uk

Would this create some sort of crawler redirection loop?

[GastonRiera]

Hi there!

As long as you try this as an experiment, please don't do it. This is an issue and may cause you to lose some rankings. Or said it in other words, Google might give you less "SEO power" and you could lose the battle with other competitors.

I happen to know some cases where the issue is between HTTP and https, and Google chooses merely to show in SERPs whatever they wanted. From what I remember now, most of the cases the canonical version was shown.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.
GR