sqaurespace is forcing 2 duplicate copies of a page to exist, one with a trailing / at the end of the address bar, and one without.
When you make a page on your site using Sqaurespace, it is made without any trailing / in the URL. But then Sqaurespace forces a duplicate page, that has a trailing /, to be considered canonical in Googles Search Console!
So all your pages you made on Sqaurespace, are not considered canonical! Instead a duplicate page with a trailing / that you didn't even know existed is pushed up, Resulting in very odd indexing behavior in Google Search Console!
You check your URL, and it is not indexed, only to find out a duplicate page with a trailing / is the one indexed. (but only most of them time, not always)
There is no consistency, it is very odd, and i am very concerned about this! (Even the internal linking Sqaurespace uses does not use a trailing /, and yet Sqaurespace still forces a trailing / duplicate page and designates it as canonical!
Google cant make sense of it. Most pages that are indexed have a trailing /, but some don't. Your forced to have to work through this, and i am concerned this could effect SEO, crawl limits, link citation flow, indexing, and rankings!
(And no i do not believe you can make a page with a trailing /, it is just automatic, or maybe just in the site map though the page exists as well in both forms.)
Can someone give a second opinion on this?
Id rather here what some people have to say here, then whatever sqaurespace claims, what is your opinion on this situation?
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