Q
What problem do example.com/page and example.com/page/ (with and without a trailing slash) cause?
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A
Only Bing indexes slash URLs
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B
Search engines may treat them as two different URLs, creating duplicates unless one redirects or is canonicalized
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C
The site is removed from search
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D
None at all
Correct Answer:
B. Search engines may treat them as two different URLs, creating duplicates unless one redirects or is canonicalized
Explanation:
The same applies to www versus non-www and HTTP versus HTTPS.
