Multi-page Post Canonical URL incorrect?
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Hello All,
I am currently using Yoast WordPress SEO plugin v1.4.18. My Google Webmaster Tools is reporting several posts with duplicate title and description. All these posts are multi-page posts. Upon digging deeper I found that the Canonical URL output by the plugin may be incorrect. For example, if I have a single post split into 3 pages (because it is extremely lengthy) then on the 2nd page of my post I see the following added by the plugin:
Sorry if I am wrong, but shouldn't the Canonical URL point to the first page, which in this case should be:
When I disable WordPress SEO plugin, WordPress generates its own Canonical tag and that points to the first page.
It is a great plugin that has helped me quite a bit but is this a bug in the plugin? Or is my understanding of Canonical URL wrong? Could this be causing the duplicate title/description messages I see on my Google Webmaster Tools? Any thoughts/ideas on how to solve this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I am currently using Yoast WordPress SEO plugin v1.4.18. My Google Webmaster Tools is reporting several posts with duplicate title and description. All these posts are multi-page posts. Upon digging deeper I found that the Canonical URL output by the plugin may be incorrect. For example, if I have a single post split into 3 pages (because it is extremely lengthy) then on the 2nd page of my post I see the following added by the plugin:
HTML Code:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/post-about-something/2/" /> <link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/post-about-something/" /> <link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/post-about-something/3/" />
HTML Code:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/post-about-something/" /> It is a great plugin that has helped me quite a bit but is this a bug in the plugin? Or is my understanding of Canonical URL wrong? Could this be causing the duplicate title/description messages I see on my Google Webmaster Tools? Any thoughts/ideas on how to solve this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!