Homepage Pagination Robots Settings

  • Resolved Thodoris Konsoulas

    (@tkonsoulas)


    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi there. In the plugin settings I have the option “Apply noindex to every second or later page on the homepage?” as enabled. In my (custom) homepage (fomo.gr) I use “Load more” buttons to load more articles and I don’t use pagination links. But I can see that Google Search Console and SEMRUSH can locate pagination pages (for example fomo.gr/page/2, fomo.gr/page/3, etc.) and those pages are indexed normally, but shouldn’t. They have:

    <meta name="robots" content="max-snippet:-1,max-image-preview:large,max-video-preview:-1" />

    Why the noindex option is not working in this case?

    Thanks for this awesome plugin and for any replies. ??

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    For the homepage, /page/2 is reachable on your website, but WordPress thinks it’s page 1 (the pagination isn’t registered with WordPress’s API). Therefore, the canonical URL always points to the first page. It also means that TSF doesn’t detect pagination and won’t output the “noindex” directive.

    For your other archives, like categories and tags, I recommend keeping the pagination thereof indexed; this allows search engine crawlers to keep an index of links to your older articles, keeping those articles indexed. You can toggle this option at “SEO > Robots Meta Settings > General > Paginated Archive Settings,” which defaults to unchecked since TSF v4.1.4 for the reason I just described.

    Thread Starter Thodoris Konsoulas

    (@tkonsoulas)

    Ok, thanks for your reply!

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