URL Redirect: http://www.example.net/ vs. http://www.example.net
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I currently have a website set up so that http://www.example.net/ redirects to http://www.example.net but **http://www.example.net/ **has more links and a higher page authority. Should I switch the redirect around? Here's the Open Site Explorer metrics for both:
- Domain Authority: 38/100
- Page Authority: 48/100
- Linking Root Domains: 112
- Total Links: 235
- Domain Authority: 38/100
- Page Authority: 45/100
- Linking Root Domains: 18
- Total Links: 39
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If your redirect is a 301 there is no need to change anything. The linkjuice will be passed through...
To be formal correct and clean up the things a little bit, it would be better if you make a 301 from http://example.net to http://example.net/
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