How to exclude paginated catgories from SERP?

austinn2603

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• Jul 10, 2021

• #1

Google has indexed all my paginated categories. For example, my site has a category "basketball" then all these url are showing up on SERP:
• https://site.com/basketball/page/2/
• https://site.com/basketball/page/3/
And so on

How can I stop that? I am currently using WordPress, Yoast Seo plugin.

 

tazarbm

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• Jul 10, 2021

• #2

AIOSEO plugin does this, but I don't recommend it anymore

 

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makeas

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• Jul 10, 2021

• #3

You have to deactivate the paginations and put infinite scroll

 

terrycody

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• Jul 10, 2021

• #4

OOPS I have same questions for years, but now I let it go, fuck it.

 

hideath

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• Jul 10, 2021

• #5

These pages do help well with crawling, blocking/removing or redirecting them wouldn't be a good choice,
You'll have to set them up with noindex, using htaccess it's just too simple,
Add the code below to do so:

Code:

SetEnvIf Request_URI "*/page/.*" NOINDEXFOLLOW
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, follow" env=REDIRECT_NOINDEXFOLLOW