navigation folders and SEO issues being caused

Hey y’all!  Hoping someone knows the answers to the below!  I’ve searched online, emailed in and asked people at SEMrush and still can’t get a straight answer.

For some reason every time I create a new site, SS is adding a .com/ and .com/cart so I end up with three different url’s for every site I create.   That ends up causing more errors with duplicate title tags and duplicate meta descriptions.  Does anyone know why it’s adding the .com/ and .com/cart?  Is the best thing to do 301 redirect the .com/ and the .com/cart to the .com?

And, the other question I can t get a straight answer to is how to fix temporary redirect seo issues that are caused when I use a folder in the navigation and add pages in it to dropdown.  It’s giving me ‘temporary redirect’ seo issues for each one.

Thanks in advance for the help!

So the best solution I found for clients for the navigation folders / temp redirects is to remove them from the main navigation and substitute a code block prependTo to both the Desktop navigation and another code block for the mobile navigation.  I just completed this for a client yesterday:

https://www.nextmilelt.com.au/

For the additional .com/ I too have noticed this; search engines will just mark them as "non-indexed"

ah, thank you so much!  Sorry!  just now seeing this.  Do you know a good code to make that happen?  thanks again for the help 🙂

On 8/18/2022 at 11:59 PM, charlestonnikki said:

For some reason every time I create a new site, SS is adding a .com/ and .com/cart so I end up with three different url’s for every site I create.

These should not cause any real world issues, regardless of what a tool may be telling you. The /cart page will always exist because it cannot be removed. The same is true for a long list of reserved url slugs on every site you build.