Migration from Wordpress to Wix

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Hi there

Any advice re this particular issue,

I am migrating my Clients site to Wix from Wordpress. The current site has a weird page name system where a / is added after the page name

ie https://www.domain.com/the-paints/

In Wix I can only call the page https://www.domain.com/the-paints (Wix wont recognise the / at the end)

My question is will this effect back links and any SEO?

Or will a 301 Redirect work ie Will Wix allow me to enter https://www.englishpaintdeliveredtofrance.com/the-paints/ to redirect to https://www.englishpaintdeliveredtofrance.com/the-paints

Any other advice about migration would be most welcomed, I’m guessing if i use the same URLs then I shouldn’t lose back links. Obviously I cant add the / to the Wix page but if pout in the same URL without the / intoi my browser the page still comes up.

Thanks for reading

Vin

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Hi Vin! Great question.

We’ll check in with the team and see if they have any advice on this topic. @markapreston our resident SEO wiz (pun intended) has also spoken quite a bit about the subject .

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Hey there Vin,

This format structure will not impact your SEO however I do recommend that you set the 301 redirects for Google.

The slash is conventionally a directory however without the slash is conventionally a file which in this case would be a page. Google treats each URL above separately (and equally) regardless of whether it’s a file or a directory, or it contains a trailing slash or it doesn’t contain a trailing slash.

I have found a great article that explains this in more detail you can find here

To slash or not to slash

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Hey Sheyla and Randy

Thank you so much. I am ready to push another Wix site live!

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We’re happy to hear Vin! :slight_smile: