Second or later category page indexed

Hello!

This feature works on all archives that correctly forward their pagination status to WordPress. I assume you’ve used Kadence Blocks’ archive-block, which doesn’t do that.

Please check the canonical URL of the paginated pages — if they point to the first page, you have effectively “noindex”‘d every following page, mitigating the issue.

If you wish for me to find the cause empirically, please share the URL of the category affected.

Hi Sybre,

The canonical URLs for the paginated pages do not point to the first page in the category but instead each has its own canonical link.

Here’s a link for your reference:
https://www.homesicktexan.com/category/tex-mex/page/2/

I am not using Kadence Blocks but maybe my theme does the same thing as it.

Thank you for any guidance!

Thank you for sharing the URL.

The canonical URL you’re seeing is intended behavior and not a bug. I got things twisted around the first time.

If you edit the category, scroll down to “Robots Meta Setting.” There, “Indexing” shouldn’t be “index,” but “Default (index)” — plain “index” would overwrite the
noindex-pagination option. Could you confirm it’s rightly set to “Default (index)”?

It’s set at index. There is no setting for “default (index)” but only “default (no index),” because this is the only category I have indexed.

Can I not choose only one, and do I therefore need to go into the SEO Framework settings and set all categories for default index?

Thanks!

Hi again!

I reconsidered my stance on TSF’s behavior here and found it a bug. A fix will be out today.
https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/commit/1e12223fb6451a70cec87a23b1c13a0e77daebc0

This means that from TSF v4.2.5, “Paginated terms (archives) still get applied noindex from global settings, even when the archive is set to force-index.”

Cheers ??

Thanks, Sybre! The plugin is now updated!