Duplicate page content on numerical blog pages?
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Hello everyone,
I'm still relatively new at SEO and am still trying my best to learn.
However, I have this persistent issue. My site is on WordPress and all of my blog pages e.g page one, page two etc are all coming up as duplicate content.
Here are some URL examples of what I mean:
http://3mil.co.uk/insights-web-design-blog/page/3/
http://3mil.co.uk/insights-web-design-blog/page/4/
Does anyone have any ideas?
I have already no indexed categories and tags so it is not them.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Thanks for your help Logan.
This is exactly what I was looking for.
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I think the solution you're looking for is pagination markup. Use the rel=prev and rel=next tag to point search engines towards the proper paginated URLs. This effectively eliminates duplicate content issues where http://3mil.co.uk/insights-web-design-blog/page/3/ is flagged as a duplicate of http://3mil.co.uk/insights-web-design-blog/page/2/.
You can read more on this topic in this article on the Search Console help site.
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Hello Eric,
Thanks for your quick response. I have already implemented the "more" tag onto all of my posts and this doesn't seem to stop the issue.
I don't mean that the blog posts have multiple pages I mean that the blog itself where there are various snippets of blog posts has more than one page. Like this: http://3mil.co.uk/insights-web-design-blog/
If that makes sense?
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Those pages (e.g., /page/3/, /page/4/ etc.) are definitely duplicate content pages if you're not splitting up posts. In WordPress, we typically recommend using the "more" tag or other functionality to split up posts so that only a snippet is shown in places other than the full blog post URL itself.
There are a few ways to deal with this, but always make sure you're splitting up posts using the 'more' tag or something similar. You'll want to make sure that your category page or blog home page is only showing a 'snippet' of each post, then the user must click on the blog post itself to see the full post.
If you're running into an issue where you have a ton of pages like /page/3/, /page/4/, /page/5/, then you might look at those posts and see how many posts you're showing on each page (5, 10, or 20)? You might increase the number of posts you're showing. That would cut down on the number of "pages" (/page/3/) that you'll end up with.
Another way to deal with this would be to look at the posts and see if you can split them up into more categories or subcategories. I personally prefer subcategories if possible--but you won't want to have a category or subcategory with only one post in it.
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