Next Gen Gallery Crawler Problem
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I use the Next gen gallery plugin on my wordpress sites.
The moz crawler reports a ton of high importance issues with this plugin because it creates duplicate pages
It will have domain.com/page, domain.com/page/gallery, domain.com/page/gallery/1/, domain.com/page/gallery/2/
This is a pretty popular plugin so I am hoping there is some way of fixing this relatively easy. I can imagine i need to set up a rel canonical but there does not seem to be an easy way to do so.
Thoughts?
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Ill look again. Thanks so much for the help
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You may want to double check that. I'm not a Yoast specialist, per se, but I've never had that plugin not solve this type of problem. And from what you've described, I'm sure Yoast can help with that. It's a little complex, maybe take a second look-through with a developer.
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Already tried that plugin and it did not have this functionality.
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Download the Yoast SEO plugin. It'll help you solve nearly all problems. Hands down the best WP plugin for SEO.
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I understand that. My problem is trying to implement it within the plugin that I did not develop. Since it is a vastly popular plugin I was more so looking to see if anybody knows of how to do so already. It does not give me access to "page 1 gallery" "page 2 gallery" for me to put a rel canonical in place
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Yes, if /page/gallery/1/, /page/gallery/2/ are exact duplicates just place a canonical tag on the /page/gallery (and the duplicates) referencing /page/gallery.
Another recommendation to avoid duplicate/confusion by search engines: apply rel="next" and rel="prev" to the series of gallery pages. Once you get enough images, I'm guessing the URL structure will become /page/gallery/page_2, 3, 4, etc. (or something like that).
The next/prev elements let the search engine know they are a series of a type of content (in this case, images) and are associated.
That type of content can be real headaches for us SEOs! Good luck.
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