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Pagination duplicate title and meta description
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Hello,
Getting a lot of duplicate title and meta description errors via google webmaster tools.
For best SEO practices, do i no-index the page/2's, page/3's...?
More importantly, i see how MOZ did it by adding "page 3" to their titles such as http://moz.com/blog?page=3. Is that a better way of doing it? If so, how do i do that on Yoast SEO?
Thank you so much!
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That's a slick piece of code but fortunately this is no longer an issue for titles of paginated posts when running the Yoast plugin. The paginated pages say Page "#" of "total pages #".
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Hi there.
Here is a code solution - it adds " - Page: X" where X is a number of page. Add it to functions.php file of wordpress:
<code>php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-/** * Plugin Name: T5 Add page number to title * Description: Adds ` | Page $number` to the page title. * License: MIT * License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php */if(! function_exists('t5_add_page_number')){function t5_add_page_number( $s ){global $page; $paged = get_query_var('paged')? get_query_var('paged'):1;! empty ( $page )&&1< $page && $paged = $page; $paged >1&& $s .=' | '. sprintf( __('Page: %s'), $paged );return $s;} add_filter('wp_title','t5_add_page_number',100,1); add_filter('wpseo_metadesc','t5_add_page_number',100,1);}</code>
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I did in my answer above.
If you want to totally solve it, also add a canonical to lead to a page that has ALL your posts shown. (Done manually, not through yoast)
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Shakur,
Thank you. Is there a way to implement those tactics via Yoast SEO?
I made a post for it here as well:
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You can just noindex those sub pages in Yoast under Titles and Metas
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Hi there,
There are a lot of options, but there's serious danger in using the wrong structures.
Take a look on this post, it may help you http://moz.com/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience
Regards
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