do we have to add/remove a trailing slash for pagination page numbers in the url. how seo considers that?

Question

My module is paginated. I want to either add a trailing slash or remove a trailing slash. For now i am thinking of adding a trailing slashes to all URLS.

What will be the effect on adding a trailing slash for paginated URLS like sitename.com/module/page/5/

what will be the difference in /page/5/ vs /page/5 with respect to the users, seo and crawlers?

The reason for always trailing slash on/off is to prevent duplicate content because of which the site gets penalized.

Answer 1

There is no difference. As long as you are consistent (by always using the slash or always omitting it), the URIs are just a string of text to search engines.