canonical for pagination

  • Галина

    (@galinaplisuk180888)


    2 years, 12 months ago

    Good morning!
    Could you please advice how to fix the problem with canonical links in pagination?
    On pages 

    https://example.com/blog
https://example.com/blog/page/2/

    The canonical url is the first post like this:
    https://example.com/first-post/
    There is youst plagin. But I think that the problem is in functions.php
    Thank you

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 12 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic
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  • First of all, these types of canonicals are detected by SEO tools such as Screaming Frog or any other. Secondly, Google understands what pagination pages are and such pages really do not affect your SEO at all. Canonical pages have the meaning of “similar pages”. Canonicals in pagination are created because they list blog posts in order to cause SEO tools to think that they are copied or similar pages. This is just a headache because the more you publish blog posts, the more paginations will increase and the more editing you will require. Therefore, I will not worry about it much as it won’t affect my SEO at all. Still, if you are using Yoast, you can edit those individual pagination pages one by one and modify their meta descriptions and title. If you still want to insert values for canonical, Yoast provides that function too. In addition to that, I would add this attribute to meta title and description: %%page%%

    Hope this helps.

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