When we generate SEO reports, the SEO crawler detects some pages as having the trailing slash and others not, but only on some of our pages.
All our pages have a trailing slash.
But we don’t understand why 301 redirects are done on the one that doesn’t.
https://example.com/hello/
https://example.com/hello
The difference is the trailing slash. He sort of thinks that there are 2 “different” pages - with exactly the same content - and then we are penalized.
This usually means that there is a link, or structured data information, somewhere with the address, with a slash at the end. I have now looked at the html output of every page on one of our sites, and there is no mention of the address with the trailing slash anywhere …
I’m starting to think maybe it’s a problem with the .htaccess file? Or maybe somewhere else? …
We are multisite so the .htaccess is tricky
Any suggestion would be welcome!
