Well With Due Respect Mr frostschutz
There are two main reasons behind me wanting to add a trailing slash.
1. My blog uses the trailing slash at the end of the urls.
2.Google's Matt Cutt uses the same structure. All urls end with a trailing slash.
3.Some of the most famous blogs like wpbeginner and hongkiat are also using the same structure.
The things that worries me about not having a trailing slash is that it breaks the url scheme for my website as blog posts have a trailing slash.
And i think these two url schemes together may negatively impact my SEO. so i want to stick to one format and when i try to decide which one to use i see Matt Cutt and other famous sites using a trailing slash.
I might give up on this if you can convince me that it is not not going to impact my seo.
Or you can just guide me step by step how do i force a trailing slash
You have my .htacess file up there, you can modify it (because you know how to) and i can upload it (because i have access)
And we can mark this post as solved
Another thing behind wanting this change is this that we are a kind of authority site and we rank for many keywords in different niches. We have the ability to write about any topic and to get ranked for that. For example talking of mybb we rank number 1# for
Mybb Raputation Cleaner Plugin
and many other such terms
We also rank number 1 for
Memory Techniques For Bankers
and many other such terms.
Probably the authority factor and we have a strong base of contributors.
I hope it is clear what i am trying to say here.
I am thinking of the future. If using two different schemes is going to cause a problem, we might be able to deal with it now but in future when things get even better for us, we might not be able to make the switch.
We have one blog, three forums and one gamings section under this domain so yeah it is a big one and that is why i am concerned about it.