- Dec 3, 2018
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Interesting to see a new dealership site vendor Fox Dealer, the "#1 Fastest Growing Company in Automotive" on the Inc. 500.
Crawling a few of their websites, they have a silly little error that you should demand resolved if considering them for website development. Their URLs are canonicalized to their non-trailing slash version, which itself 301 redirects to the trailing slash version.
https://www.toyotaofhb.com/bad-credit-financing/
Indexability: Non-Indexable
Indexability Status: Canonicalised
Canonical Link Element 1: https://www.toyotaofhb.com/bad-credit-financing
Status Code: 301
Redirect URI: https://www.toyotaofhb.com/bad-credit-financing/
For those of you who have friends, Google treats URLs outside of your Home page with trailing slashes and those without as separate pages, even if it's the same content. It's dumb too because Googlebot will attempt to crawl canonicals. I'm sure it's a quick fix, but should definitely be requested none-the-less.
Crawling a few of their websites, they have a silly little error that you should demand resolved if considering them for website development. Their URLs are canonicalized to their non-trailing slash version, which itself 301 redirects to the trailing slash version.
https://www.toyotaofhb.com/bad-credit-financing/
Indexability: Non-Indexable
Indexability Status: Canonicalised
Canonical Link Element 1: https://www.toyotaofhb.com/bad-credit-financing
Status Code: 301
Redirect URI: https://www.toyotaofhb.com/bad-credit-financing/
For those of you who have friends, Google treats URLs outside of your Home page with trailing slashes and those without as separate pages, even if it's the same content. It's dumb too because Googlebot will attempt to crawl canonicals. I'm sure it's a quick fix, but should definitely be requested none-the-less.