paginated articles – title/description questions

  • Resolved Johannes Jülg

    (@timse201)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,
    I was a long time user of wpseo. There was an option to manually set description and title to paginated articles. nextpagetitle can also change <h1> of the corresponding page if an option is set.
    you only had to add:
    <!–nextpage–><!–nextpagetitle: Title for page 2 –><!–nextpagedesc: Description for page 2 –>

    is such a feature already included (can’t find it in doc)?

    Another annotation I have is – If I use auto description for paginated articles, the following pages have the same description meta tag as page 1.

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    TSF recognizes paginated pages and will append “Separator Page <number>” to the title, outputs a unique canonical URL for each page, and outputs next/pref relationship links. TSF does not support unique titles or descriptions otherwise, and this is following Google’s guidelines.

    From Google’s guide on Pagination Best Practices:

    Normally, we recommend that you give web pages distinct titles to help differentiate them. However, pages in a paginated sequence don’t need to follow this recommendation. You can use the same titles and descriptions for all pages in the sequence. Google tries to recognize pages in a sequence and index them accordingly.

    TSF helps Google by annotating links to the next and previous page (if any), even though they claim not to use them (we found they follow them regardless):

    In the past, Google used <link rel="next" href="..."> and <link rel="prev" href="..."> to identify next page / previous page relationships. Google no longer uses these tags, although these links may still be used by other search engines.

    Implementing discrete output for paginated pages while the largest search engine (by far) is telling us not to would be counterproductive for you and us.

    Thread Starter Johannes Jülg

    (@timse201)

    Interesting. Thanks.
    I didn’t know about this fact.

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