# Remove trailing slash to save traffic (seo)

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/remove-trailing-slash-to-save-traffic-seo/19833>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [January 29, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/remove-trailing-slash-to-save-traffic-seo/19833 "2021-01-29T09:59:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Anastasiia\_Yesypenko](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/anastasiia_yesypenko/32/11428_2.png) [@Anastasiia\_Yesypenko](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Anastasiia_Yesypenko)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/remove-trailing-slash-to-save-traffic-seo/19833/1 "2021-01-29T09:59:18Z")

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I’m running the latest version of Ghost and have trouble with a required trailing slash. I want to replace the already existing blog with a blog created with Ghost.  
The previous blog is written without Ghost and its URL does not include a trailing slash. As I know, URLs with and without trailing slash are indexed as different URLs by Google. I guess that may cause traffic loss if I replace the existing URL without trailing slash with the Ghost blog with a required trailing slash. Are there any options available to save the traffic or to remove the trailing slash for the Ghost blog?

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**Author:** ![vikaspotluri123](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/vikaspotluri123/32/24_2.png) [@vikaspotluri123](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vikaspotluri123)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/remove-trailing-slash-to-save-traffic-seo/19833/2 "2021-01-29T16:34:34Z")

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Since Ghost redirects non-slash to slash (e.g. `/page` to `/page/`), search engines will pick up the new URL over time, and incoming users will be redirected so they won’t see anything change 🙂

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**Author:** ![mheynman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mheynman/32/20913_2.png) [@mheynman](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mheynman)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/remove-trailing-slash-to-save-traffic-seo/19833/3 "2023-01-01T15:08:57Z")

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We are in the same situation. Is there any way to remove the requirement for trailing slashes, at least for some pages?

I understand since the beginning of time Ghost had trailing slashes. However we only need to have no-trailing slashes on some pages (/pricing, /demo) which is much more appealing. We’ve put so much effort in migrating to Ghost already and not having this would be unfortunate.

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**Author:** ![John](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/john/32/29288_2.png) [@John](https://forum.ghost.org/u/John)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/remove-trailing-slash-to-save-traffic-seo/19833/4 "2023-01-01T19:21:38Z")

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No, there is no way to change this. As already mentioned above, URLs without slashes will automatically redirect, so the difference is purely cosmetic.