Grantfinder urls preserve trailing slash

[CarolynVictoria]

Some Grantfinder landing pages on SQSP have trailing slash urls. Still looking at why, maybe the source is a redirect that was incorrectly defined with a trailing "/".

dev links on this issue: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/206125735/migration-from-trailing-slash-to-no-trailing-slash-issue-how-to-remove-from-page-with-redirect?hl=en

also: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/206125735/migration-from-trailing-slash-to-no-trailing-slash-issue-how-to-remove-from-page-with-redirect?hl=en

and: https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/206125735/migration-from-trailing-slash-to-no-trailing-slash-issue-how-to-remove-from-page-with-redirect?hl=en

Address the issue of trailing slash on SQSP vs no trailing slash on WordPress for this content group, for temporary short term and longer term solutions. Challenge is since it's not consistent, find the use-cases affected.

Example:

Squarespace-

https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/new-jersey-grants/

Wordpress-

https://www.stgapp1.com/new-jersey-grants

[CarolynVictoria]

Following are the 12 GrantFinder Geographic landing pages that contain a trailing slash. It's not a widespread issue; we will use redirects and canonical url designations to account for this. cvm 06-10-2024.

Alaska Colorado Connecticut Montana Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Utah

[CarolynVictoria]

Resolved on source. The 12 links had trailing slashes in the hyperlink defined on the page for each. Removed on the source, target does not have the issue.

[CarolynVictoria]

Issue closed.