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Originally Posted by Webnauts
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Actually, to a web browser and a search engine, these two are identical. The document you are referring to is comparing
http://yoursite.com to
http://www.yoursite.com/ and making reference to the omission of the www subdomain. As all further references to the first URL in the text include the trailing slash, this was a typo.
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Originally Posted by http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/
Q: So when you say www vs. non-www, you’re talking about a type of canonicalization. Are there other ways that urls get canonicalized?
A: Yes, there can be a lot, but most people never notice (or need to notice) them. Search engines can do things like keeping or removing trailing slashes, trying to convert urls with upper case to lower case, or removing session IDs from bulletin board or other software (many bulletin board software packages will work fine if you omit the session ID).
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