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Is pagination and SEO a mess?

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Community Forums › Forums › General Genesis Framework Discussions › Is pagination and SEO a mess?

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  • This topic has 1 reply, 1 voice, and was last updated 1 year, 10 months ago by tornado.
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  • March 14, 2021 at 10:07 am #503449
    tornado
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    Hi there.

    I note there is reference to Genesis SEO pagination in the forum from several years ago. Where are we now?:

    A site crawl by Moz shows one of my sites duplicating meta tags when the blog pages paginate. I looked into this. I found this article, published this week from Ahrefs which explains that having a canonical link on each blog page is the correct approach.

    I have just checked Academy Pro and when I have a page set to Posts Page in Settings (for a blog), there is no canonical link on the first page, nor subsequent paginated pages. I am seeing this as a major SEO issue.

    Interestingly, if I use query_args to display posts, the canonical link displays but the page title vanishes. This happens across themes so I guess is a WordPress issue.

    I don't want to use a category page to display my blog page.

    Canonical links are on category pagination.

    I don't want to use an SEO plugin.

    What are your thoughts?

    I would also be keen to know, from an SEO standpoint, if there are implications to having a homepage blank (despite the homepage itself not appearing to be blank due to widget implementation) - which is needed for configurations that wish to allocate a Posts Page.

    Thanks in advance.

    March 14, 2021 at 10:37 am #503450
    tornado
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    In addition to the above: the canonical link that displays with query_args on paginated pages points to the first page of the blog, which is not what I want, as it essentially tells Google that paginated pages should be ignored.

    Am I missing something here or is this all a bit of a mess?

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