Invalid Links When URL Comes at the End of a Sentence

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Invalid Links When URL Comes at the End of a Sentence

Should I add a redirect, or will this cause more harm than good?

Jeremy_H

7:49 pm on Dec 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

I sometimes get in trouble if I ever write my website's URL in a sentence. Especially when the URL comes at the end, right in front of the period.

Many email programs and on line tools will automatically convert an URL to a live link, which is great, but sometimes it includes the period as part of the address. This can be confusing both to the readers of the email, those who they share the email with, search engines, and others.

A sentence like:

The site is located at URL.

Becomes:

The site is located at URL.

I try to avoid ending the sentence with an URL, but this can make the writing awkward:

URL is the location of the site.

When I do leave the URL at the end of the sentence, I sometimes add a space between it and the period:

The site is located at URL .

This also looks awkward.

I'm now wondering if I should just setup a redirect so:

http://www.example.com/. redirects to http://www.example.com/

Thanks for any advice.

physics

8:10 pm on Dec 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

You probably should given that it could help with links other people make like that. Those could get spidered and cause dupe content issues. So all in all good idea imo.

LifeinAsia

8:11 pm on Dec 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

I usually use something like-
Please see the following site: www.example.com