Is that trailing slashes necessity for an SEO doing blogs

[joshnajenny]

Hi, I have a website, https://australiatimenow.com.au/  I would like to remove the trailing slash and move to .HTML formal. I have never done SEO on my articles. Is that, any issue causes if I move to .HTML format?

[LoganRay]

The effort required to do this is relatively high and you'll see zero impact - actually, maybe a decline since you'd be redirecting all your current URLs. Google doesn't care about trailing slashes or file extensions on URLs. The most important thing is that URL variants all resolve to a single address. For example https://australiatimenow.com.au/category/health/ should always resolve instead of https://australiatimenow.com.au/category/health

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Joshna,

If you have the right engineers to change it, then removing a trailing slash, in my opinion, is not a lot of work. There I disagree with Logan. But I do agree with the fact that if you're doing it for just a ranking win, you're not going to see any impact at all. In the end, it's such a minimal change that Google is also easily able to catch that you're not going to rank better at all because of it. Likely, writing or updating an existing content piece will bring you more results than working on something like this. Only on big sites, these types of changes impact, but then not even on rankings.

Martijn.