Hello,
I apologize for the issue you are facing with the NoIndex Paginated Pages feature in Rank Math. If you have followed the steps from the guide on how to set NoIndex Paginated Pages (https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-noindex-paginated-pages/) and the paginated pages are still showing as indexed, there might be a need to further investigate the settings.
To troubleshoot this issue, please check the following:
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Ensure that you have enabled the "Noindex Paginated Single Pages" option in Rank Math SEO settings under WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Misc. Pages as shown in the guide.
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Verify that the settings are saved correctly after enabling the "Noindex Paginated Single Pages" option.
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Check if there are any conflicting settings or plugins that might be overriding the Rank Math settings.
If after checking these points, the issue persists, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further in resolving this matter.
Thank you for your understanding and patience.
Sources:
How to NoIndex Paginated Pages » Rank Math
Rank Math ‘Titles and Meta’ Options and Settings
How to Fix Submitted URL Marked ‘NoIndex’ Error » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Please head over to your WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Misc Pages, and from there make sure the Noindex Subpages and Noindex Paginated Single Pages both options are enabled:
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
The last 4 settings have already been disabled, but it doesn’t fix it.
https://prnt.sc/D6gsD_f8mVrC
Hello,
To investigate this issue further, we might need to take a closer look at your website and settings. Please follow these steps:
- Edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress and FTP logins in the Sensitive Data section. This is a secure section that only our support staff can access.
- Make sure you take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
- If you prefer, you can use this plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead: https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
- You can also use this plugin to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any): https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We appreciate your cooperation and patience.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
It seems that your paginated pages happen with an AJAX request (/blog/2/), and that doesn’t update the WP Query for the page, so our plugin cannot see that the page is being paginated.
Rank Math relies on the function is_paged() from WordPress, so the setting we use to noindex paginated pages is also not working.
You can also inspect the source code of those URLs, and the link rel="next" tag is missing.
In this case, you may try to add this filter on your site to set the paginated to noindex:
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
global $wp_query;
$page = $wp_query->get( 'page' );
if ($page > 1) {
$robots['index'] = "noindex";
$robots['follow'] = "nofollow";
return $robots;
} else {
return $robots;
}
});
And here’s a guide to adding the code to the website:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Let us know how this goes.
thank you
There is no way in the Elementor Posts widget to disable Ajax pagination and even in the Loop Grid, when set to Page Reload instead of Ajax, the NoIndex still didn’t work.
Hello,
You seemed to have marked this ticket as resolved.
Do you still need our assistance with anything else or we can go ahead to close the ticket?
We really look forward to helping you.
