I am being told by console that i have no index pages because they lack a trailing slash. But when I add it it the text turns red but not like an error, still seems to work fine though. Can I just change all of my links to have a trailing slash and solve the redirect issue?
Should I just remove the trailing / in the permalink structure and for some reason it tries to index a page like "/home/myEmailAddress" how to disable this or why is it happening?
WP automatically adds a trailing slashes by default. You should be using them consistently – which you aren’t in your code.
I doubt this is related to your search issue though, unless you’ve altered how WordPress works by default.