Google: The Trailing Slash Is Implied For Canonicalization

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter some time ago that the trailing slash after the domain name is an implied canonical. He said "The trailing slash after a domain name is always there, even if it's not shown." "It's always implied for canonicalization," he added.

Here are the tweets about this:

The trailing slash after a domain name is always there, even if it's not shown. It's always implied for canonicalization.

— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) December 6, 2018

So if you see https://www.seroundtable.com it really means https://www.seroundtable.com/

Forum discussion at Twitter.