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BAD NEWS: Pagination and Wordpress

by Martin N Smith
5 replies
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Hi all,

I'm hoping one of the 'on-site' ninjas will be able to help me out with this one.

The problem:

I have several Wordpress blogs.

On the homepage of each blog is a list of 10 news articles.

Lets say the homepage is:

'www.myhomepage.com

At the bottom of the news articles (on the homepage) is a link that says 'Older Entries'.

The 'Older Entries' link takes the user to:

'www.myhomepage.com/page/2

At the bottom of the news articles (on page 2 of the homepage) is a link that says 'Older Entries'.

The 'Older Entries' link takes the user to:

'www.myhomepage.com/page/3

I'm sure you get the picture.

As things stand, when I perform a site:myhomepage.com search in Google this morning, there are over 19 pages indexed:

'www.myhomepage.com
'www.myhomepage.com/page/2
'www.myhomepage.com/page/3
'www.myhomepage.com/page/4
'www.myhomepage.com/page/5
'www.myhomepage.com/page/6
'www.myhomepage.com/page/7

etc

All of the pages in Google's index AND use the same meta title / description - which presumably has a duplicate content issue.


Does anyone know what the recommended 'best practice' solution here? I.e no index page/2, page/3. page/4 etc?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Martin
#bad #news #pagination #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author MikeRub
    You must put "noindex, follow" on your pagination. After that, you can remove manually, the entire folder from Webmaster Tools account.

    Remove folder: myhomepage.com/page/
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    • Profile picture of the author Agus MU
      Some of SEO plugin for wordpress has robots meta configuration where you can put "noindex, follow" meta to your "paged" page. For example, Wordpress SEO by Yoast, you can check it here,

      wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/
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    • Profile picture of the author Martin N Smith
      Originally Posted by MikeRub View Post

      You must put "noindex, follow" on your pagination. After that, you can remove manually, the entire folder from Webmaster Tools account.

      Remove folder: myhomepage.com/page/
      Thanks Mike.

      You must put "noindex, follow" on your pagination

      Any idea how this can be done in Wordpress?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeRub
    Add this in the header.php

    <?php if ($paged) { ?> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" /> <?php } ?>
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Use Wordpress SEO by Yoast.

    It will add the noindex,follow to paged listings and will make the titles unique by adding Page 2 of 19, Page 3 of 19, etc.
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