What pagination syntax does Yoast SEO read.

  • Resolved Michael Levy

    (@eruna_msl)


    1 year, 3 months ago

    On paginated category pages the Canonical Link is referencing the first page and not the current page.

    <link rel="canonical"  class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" />

    Other support responses to this question say that Yoast relies on WP core functions to understand if the page is paginated.

    The theme uses the following template tags after the loop.

    <div class="navigation">
		<div class="alignleft">
			
			<?php previous_posts_link('&laquo; Newer Entries') ?>
		</div>
		<div class="alignright"><?php next_posts_link('Older Entries &raquo;') ?>
			
		</div>
	</div>

    Can you please let me know what syntax Yoast is able to read?

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @eruna_msl

    Thanks for your question about canonical URLs for paginated archives. They’re supposed to self-reference themselves.

    Our plugin utilizes the built-in WordPress core functions to recognize pagination. But some plugins and theme developers have modified or created their method of adding pagination.

    Also, it could be that the previously optimized data is invalid or incomplete. We’ll start with a reset of the optimization to ensure we’ve removed any invalid data.

    1. Install & activate the Yoast Test Helper plugin
    2. Go to Tools > Yoast Test
    3. Locate the Yoast SEO section and click on the ‘Reset indexables tables & migrations‘, ‘Reset Prominent words calculation‘, and ‘Reset Internal link counter‘ buttons. After each click, the page will reload to confirm that the specific reset was successful.
    4. Go to SEO > Tools, and under SEO data, click the “Start SEO data optimization” button to allow Yoast to rescan your content.

    Please let us know if the reported issue remains after resetting the optimized data, then we can explore other troubleshooting options.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Maybellyne.
    Thread Starter Michael Levy

    (@eruna_msl)

    Thank you. I tried this, but the canonical links are the same and haven’t been updated.

    https://fliinvestors.com/investment-insights/page/2/

    <link rel="canonical" href="https://fliinvestors.com/./investment-insights/" class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" /> <link rel="next" href="https://fliinvestors.com/./investment-insights/page/2/" class="yoast-seo-meta-tag" />
    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    The page doesn’t look like a true paginated series. If it is, apart from the canonical URL tag, the rel="next" attribute should be present while rel="prev" should be present for /page/2/.

    Is the paginated series custom-coded or are you using a theme widget to create it?

    Plugin Support Jose Varghese

    (@josevarghese)

    This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

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