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Google’s John Mueller clarifies that URLs are case sensitive, so it matters whether the characters are uppercase or lowercase.
Variations in cases can make one URL different from another, similar to how a URL with a trailing slash is different from a URL without the slash.
This topic is addressed in the latest installment of Ask Googlebot on the Google Search Central YouTube channel.
A question is submitted asking whether a website’s rankings can be impacted by the case of the letters in the URL.
Mueller answers the question while also explaining how Google chooses which version of a URL to display in search results.
Do the Cases of Letters in a URL Impact SEO?
The cases of letters in a URL absolutely do matter to Google.
Two URLs could look the same, and even lead to the same content, but they could be treated as different URLs if one has a capital letter and the other doesn’t.
Mueller says:
“By definition, URLs are case sensitive, and also things like slashes at the end do matter. So, technically, yes — these things matter. They make URLs different.”
When Google recognizes there are multiple versions of the same URL, it will try to crawl all of them and figure out which one to show in search results.
Although this is handled automatically, Mueller...
Read Full Story: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-urls-are-case-sensitive/421264/
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