Paginated pages showing up in Google SERP

Hello Chris,

Thanks for reaching out about your paginated archives. Unfortunately, there is no option in the Yoast plugin to add noindex to paginated archives. According to Google, adding noindex on a page long-term will lead to them not following links on that page. More recent statements imply that if a page isn’t in their index, the links on it and from it can’t be evaluated at all. So with that, we do not recommend adding noindex to page 2 and further on paginated archives.

However, if you still want to noindex paginated archive pages, you can use the filter at https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/6310#issuecomment-268838291. You or your developer can customize it depending on your needs. You may also get in touch with your theme developer for further guidance.

Hi @maybellyne

Maybe setting them to a canonical (to the 1st page) is an option?

Can this be done in Yoast?

Best,
Mary

Hi @pleazo

We don’t recommend this, as it’s better if each page of the paginated archive points to its own canonical URL instead of pointing to the first page.

You can learn more about it here – https://yoast.com/help/is-the-plugin-compatible-with-paginated-content/

Hi,

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Thanks for understanding!