Growth at Incode owns the top of the funnel for every region, and inbound starts with search. But the sitemap lists all 1,142 pages without a trailing slash, while each page's canonical tag, and the sitemap's own hreflang links, use the slash form. In two samples totalling 108 sitemap URLs, every one answered with a 301 redirect. Search engines are being handed a map in which no address is final, which slows how fast new pages, such as the TrustGraph launch, the Spanish site and new blog posts, get crawled and indexed, and Search Console reports them as "page with redirect" rather than indexed.
First action
Change the sitemap generator to output the trailing-slash URLs and resubmit it.
How to measure it
Sitemap URLs returning 200
- Now
- –
- Target
- 100%
- By
- 2 weeks
Steps
Fix the generator
Output canonical URLs with the trailing slash.
Web team 1 day
Split by section
Blog, glossary, press, products, Spanish.
Web team 1 day
Match hreflang
loc and alternate links identical.
Web team 2 hours
Resubmit
Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
Growth Engineer 1 hour
Add a build check
Fail the deploy if a sitemap URL redirects.
Growth Engineer 1 day
Track indexing
Indexed count per section weekly.
Growth Engineer weekly
Report
Organic demo requests per section.
Head of Growth monthly
Why it works
Regenerate the sitemap with the exact canonical URLs (trailing slash), so <loc>, canonical and hreflang all agree, and split it by section (blog, glossary, press, Spanish, product) so indexing can be tracked per section. Resubmit in Search Console and Bing, then watch indexed counts and time-to-index for new posts. Put a check in the build: any sitemap URL that does not return 200 fails the deploy.
A sitemap of final URLs is the cheapest fix to inbound: crawlers spend their time on content instead of redirects, and every new launch page reaches search faster.
Ready to use
ChecklistSitemap fix
[ ] <loc> uses the canonical URL with trailing slash [ ] hreflang alternates match <loc> [ ] One sitemap per section in a sitemap index [ ] Resubmitted to Search Console and Bing [ ] Deploy fails if any sitemap URL is not 200 [ ] Internal links use the canonical form [ ] Weekly indexed-count report
Risks and how to handle them
Other links still point to no-slash URLs
Update internal links and nav to the canonical form too.
No visible change in week one
Judge on indexed counts over four to six weeks.
Evidence
- Your websiteThe sitemap lists 1,142 URLs, none with a trailing slash, while every page's canonical tag and the sitemap's own hreflang links use the trailing-slash form (for example /about/). In two samples totalling 108 sitemap URLs checked on October 22, 2026, all 108 answered with a 301 redirect to the slash version.Source
- HiringGrowth Engineer (Mexico, posted October 19, 2026): "Growth at Incode owns the top of funnel - the pipeline that feeds every region's revenue number." The role ships "AI agents, automations, and workflows across the full top-of-funnel surface: outbound, inbound, lead qualification and routing, event and conference motions, account and competitive research" on Salesforce, Supabase and Outreach data, for revenue teams "across NAM, LATAM, and EMEA". The agent fleet "is built and maintained by a single engineer. You are the second builder", measured in "qualified pipeline, meetings held, and hours returned to a 24-person revenue team". It adds: "there is no self-serve funnel to optimize".Source
- Your websiteContent in the sitemap: 285 English blog posts, 175 glossary terms, 116 press items, 19 case studies (including Airbnb, BetMGM, FanDuel, Chime, Etsy, Interac, Login.gov, Quest Diagnostics and TikTok), 16 industry pages and 7 webinars; a UK fintech landing page ("Criminals stole £1.28bn. The FCA is fining the firms that let them in"); no pricing page.Source
- Your websiteTrustGraph page: "The first trust network built for the agentic era"; "Up to 53% more fraud detected than with institutions' existing models alone" (best institution in the Early Access Program); "$50M+ invested in the patented privacy-preserving technology", "Developed by Identiq, acquired by Incode in 2026". Launch coverage was posted on October 14, 2026.Source