[Read] This Guide About Pagination For Best Results

[4JohnWick]

I love and Hate Yoast.

Love them: Due to their site-wide control over CPT and any post/taxonomy you have.
Hate Them: Because They still believe that Google uses rel="next" rel="prev" Links.

They solved this issue in Yoast V 6.3. Then they got it back.

And in this non-tech guide, I will instruct You step by step how to uses few lines of code to disable pagination from getting indexed in Google. Which results in really really unwanted results

1 - Install Code Snippets Plugin Here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/
2 - Add This beautiful lines in Snippets -> Add New

function pagination_subpage_fix() {
if(is_paged()) echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>';}
add_action('wp_head', 'pagination_subpage_fix');

3 - Eventually, Click on Only run on site front-end . And Click On Save Changes
No your paginated pages won't get indexed in Google.

 

[Corydoras007]

Any reason to why yoast brought this back?

 

[4JohnWick]

Any reason to why yoast brought this back?

They think Google Uses the rel="next" rel="prev". Meanwhile, John Muller denied this on Twitter

 

[JimHalpert]

Good stuff thanks for the share. Never knew much about pagination.

 

[4JohnWick]

Good stuff thanks for the share. Never knew much about pagination.

Wrong handling for pagination can ruin your rankings.

 

[TheVigilante]

Wrong handling for pagination can ruin your rankings.

as in how?

We just follow what you have told to do pagination right?

 

[4JohnWick]

as in how?

We just follow what you have told to do pagination right?

Yes, Am just ensuring for him how important is to "noindex" your paginated pages.

 

[TheVigilante]

Yes, Am just ensuring for him how important is to "noindex" your paginated pages.

I am talking about the wrong doing as in how can he mess things up when you have explained it step wise

 

[fun maker]

Thanks for sharing

 

[ashish2112]

What is pagination and how will it ruin my site?