Permalinks and Trailing Slashes for Posts

  • monkeywisdom

    (@monkeywisdom)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    Howdy,

    I’m starting a new blog, and I have questions about trailing slashes for posts.

    My top three choices are:

    Custom /%postname%/
    Custom /%postname%

    and the radio button that says /sample-post/

    I’ve been hearing that there are performance issues when you don’t have a trailing slash. I also hear that some websites forget the trailing slash when linking to you, and that will force a redirect which is arguably less SEO friendly or at least slows page loading speed.

    What’s the best route? Also, what’s the difference between custom /%postname%/ and /sample-post/? Is one more flexible than the other?

    Thanks.

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  • Jon

    (@jonpaulwade)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Anybody? I have the same question.

    Thread Starter monkeywisdom

    (@monkeywisdom)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    Jon W, it’s looking more and more like search engines are becoming increasingly smart about that stuff. I’m just using trailing slashes for that stuff. The search algorithms are evolving a lot. In some cases, I looked at page rank, one small ranking factor, with and without the trailing slash, and found them to be the same in Google.

    Jon

    (@jonpaulwade)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    My thoughts too.

    Some have talked about server response times and using proper net rules etc. but I don’t understand if any of that applies today.

    Thread Starter monkeywisdom

    (@monkeywisdom)

    11 years, 10 months ago

    It seems like it could make a difference in response time between no www and www, things like that. Not exactly sure about trailing slash. You can try it in various web page load speed tools.

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