Canonical URLs and SEO

[casper434]

i created the home page through the appearance/widgets menu using an agentpress theme built on the genesis framework. there is no "home page" appearing as either a page or post in these menus (unless I am missing something)

[Nobody1560986989723]

Can you take some screenshots so I can see what you're seeing?

Can you post firstly the page you see when you are editing the home page content? (not the layout/design).

[casper434]

screenshot attached

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[Nobody1560986989723]

And can you show me the screen/section when you're editing the homepage text?

(we will get to the bottom of this one, it's just taking time).

[casper434]

all done through the widgets per attached example

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[Nobody1560986989723]

Oh I see, you've got a specialised set-up. Okay.

In which case the actual place you want to be checking is under Settings > General and look at your Wordpress and website address to see if those have a trailing backslash or not.

[casper434]

They do not have the slash but the Yoast SEO package has it in the automatic rel=canonical which I cannot find to change

[Nobody1560986989723]

Ah I think I may have found it.

Under Permalinks on the Yoast menu on the left do you have

"Enforce a trailing slash on all category and tag URL's" ticked or not?

[casper434]

no it is not checked

[Nobody1560986989723]

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-rel-canonical-bug

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