Pagination

  • Resolved Bunty Pundir

    (@bunty-pundir)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there,

    I revamped my site structure and so basically I was showing the latest blog posts on my homepage. It was like an old homepage website showing 5 blog posts per page. Google has indexed these pages let’s say mydomain.com/page/1, mydomain.com/page/2, and so on….. They have different content on these pages such as the excerpt or summary of each blog post and a thumbnail.

    But today I designed my website and added a static homepage to sell products and membership. We don’t have a big website, it has only 300 pages indexed by Google.

    So because I changed WordPress settings in Reading > Homepage Display > Static > Homepage (I selected my new homepage)

    What I am seeing on those paginated index pages is, the same content that I have on my front page is being displayed on the paginated pages. The new homepage content is on every indexed paginated page.

    I saw the canonical tag of the page and it is set to my main domain: https://mydomain.com

    Will it create a duplicate content issue? Because The home page content is on every paginated page. There are 39 paginated pages. I tried no indexing them by Yoast won’t allow me to do so.

    Will, it hurt my ranking? or Google will ignore it?

    What should I do?

    Check the example here: https://www.psdstack.com
    Page2 : https://www.psdstack.com/page/2 (notice the same content from homepage)
    Even here page3: https://www.psdstack.com/page/3

    Thanks,
    Bunty

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Bunty Pundir.
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  • Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @bunty-pundir We checked on the site, and for the homepage, can you please confirm that the content you are seeing is correct? The home page appears to be displaying your most recent posts so if you set the home page to a page that should be displaying products and memberships, the site may be caching the previous homepage. We aren’t sure from your initial post if that was the intended content for the home page. Can you please confirm?

    Regarding the pagination, we reviewed the source code of the paginated pages and both show the canonical (see image here) as being set to the homepage (meaning the homepage URL without pagination in the URL) such as in the following:

    <link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.psdstack.com/&#8221; />

    With the canonical passing the SEO weight of the paginated pages to the main home page URL, this shouldn’t have any adverse effect on your SEO. However, we aren’t sure why your site would be showing the same content for the paginated pages, so would still recommend looking into that further and resolving.

    Thread Starter Bunty Pundir

    (@bunty-pundir)

    The homepage design under process, we are creating products once we have them we’ll show them on the homepage that we created. Yes, I can confirm for now on, this is how the homepage meant to display my latest posts. The content is correct on homepage!

    Any tip on how can I remove those pages? Earlier, it was good when I don’t have a static page but this has become a problem after adding a static page.

    Thanks,
    Bunty

    Hi @bunty-pundir,

    We are not sure where those paging pages come from after you configured a static page to be your homepage… You might want to configure a blog page separately under Settings → Reading but that would depend on how you want to structure your site. Hope this helps.

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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