Just a little perspective here. I’m in sales, but also responsible for our DNN site "stonefieldquery. com". I’m trying to learn as much as I can about web design and SEO. So, here are my stupid questions. Maybe someone else has these too.
Is there any difference between:
"stonefielquery. com" and stonefieldquery. com"
In the crawler is says the following link failed: "http://www.stonefieldquery.com/solutions/act/reports/TOP N SAMPLE.PDF" , however when I launch it, it works fine. Is that because IE knows to add a "%20" for each space?
How do you use the URL Check / Content / Content Tree? Does this have something to do with WC3 compatibility?
I’m sure to have more.
Sales and SEO
I didn’t ask my first question right. What I meant to ask was….
Is there any difference between:
"www.stonefielquery.com" and www.stonefieldquery.com/"
The difference is the "/" at the end?
Is there any value to using a trailing slash on directory names? Excellent question!
When you make a request for a web page that is really a directory, Apache sees the request, translates the url and sees that /02 is really a directory and not a filename.
It then passes ‘/02′ to the alias sub-system and then sends back a redirect to add the ending forward slash to the directory.
This all happens behind the scenes and you never really notice that your browser is making two requests.
For example, type in websecurity.mobi into your favorite browser and you’ll get back websecurity.mobi/
The correct way to represent a directory is with the forward slash ‘/’ and some SEO‘s claim that it helps you rank higher. I don’t subscribe to that and have never worried about it – no matter how you write it, it will come out the correct way.
Perhaps if you have a large site with a tons of traffic, you would notice a slight speed increase by removing the extra call, but I think it would be minimal.
If you are going to start from scratch (new links), then use the forward slash on the directory. If you already have a site not using the forward slash, no big deal.
Hope that helps,
Regards,
Jim.