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Trailing Slash Problems
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Link juice being split between trailing slash and non versions. ie. ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk and ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk/
Initially asked in here and was told to do a rewrite in the htaccess file.
I don't have access to this with squarespace, nor can I add canonical tags on a page by page basis.
301 redirect from scentsy-uk to scentsy-uk/ didn't work either...said that the redirect wasn't completing in an error message on the browser.
Squarespace hasn't been very helpful at all.
My question is....is there another way to fix this? or should I just call it a day with squarespace and move to wordpress?
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I know this is an old thread but just wondering if anyone ever found a solution in Squarespace, or did everyone just move over to Wordpress?
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You'll be hard pressed to find a hosted platform that is technically optimized for search engines. Adobe Catalyst, Squarespace, Wix, etc. will all have little (or major) issues. I don't know of too many really popular sites hosted on these platforms, but that's not to say those hosted sites won't rank well for chosen keywords. Anyway, here's what Google has to say about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTrdP7lJ2HU
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Hi Christine:
Did you ever find a solution for this? I have a client who's Squarespace site shows rel-con issues with my recent crawl. And to your point, you can't implement that on a per page basis. Squarespace hasn't responded (yet) to a service request. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you!
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Is there a way to get around this without moving to Wordpress? I only will do that if there's absolutely no other way to help my site.
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Looks like a move to Wordpress is a safe bet then as your system seems very SEO-Unfriendly.
When you do move to Wordpress be sure to check out Yoast SEO Plugin http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
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Aran I can't add canonical tags on a page by page basis. x
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have you tried using the canonical tag?
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Essentially, its only a issue when you have links to both the slash and non-slash versions. I would standardize on either having slashes or not, and make sure all links on the site follow the standard. However, after hearing that they lack basic SEO, I would convert to WP.
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