If you visit a URL with more slashes than absolutely necessary, or other redundancy, you should get a 301. This is partly Google-stroking, and partly making sure things like visited-or-not status work properly.
The one kind of duplicate content URL that should use rel=canonical (or nothing) instead of a 301 is https.
If you visit a URL with more slashes than absolutely necessary, or other redundancy, you should get a 301. This is partly Google-stroking, and partly making sure things like visited-or-not status work properly.
The one kind of duplicate content URL that should use rel=canonical (or nothing) instead of a 301 is https.