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Hello,
I realized that the rel=”next” and rel=”prev” tags are missing in my pages and pagination pages. As you know, those tags are a very useful hint for Google to understand what is an archive with paginations, and prevent bot from detecting pagination pages as duplicated content.
Plus, all pagination pages have the first page as canonical, instead of refering to themselves, which is what Google recommends.
How can I solve this?
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.
Google announced sometime last year that it is no longer taking rel=prev/next tags into account. To avoid duplicate content for paginated pages, I would recommend going to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Misc Pages and enable the Noindex Paginated Pages option.
You can use this filter to change canonical URLs per your preference:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#change-canonical-urlPlease note that we do not offer support for customizations that are not part of the plugin. If you are note familiar with coding, you can consult a coder to customize the filter for your situation. Do note that we neither support this type of edit and neither do we recommend doing this having provided the reason above already.
If you need help with anything else, please open a new support ticket here so we can help.
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Thanks for the reply.
Still, I have to insist. It is true that Google is no longer taking rel=prev/next tags into account. But when the canonical is wrong, tags could be taken as a hint by Google, in order to understand our pagination systems.
Avoid paginations pages to get indexed is not a good solution in my case. Pagination pages are important to transmit pagerank and keep your old content linked, among other things.
So, the real problem is with canonicals. Thanks for the resource, I will try that solution, but I think that you should add to your plugin an easy way to deal with the canonicals on pagination pages. Nowadays, to have the right canonicals is mandatory in SEO. Each page with unique content must have its own unique canonical.
I hope you to take it into consideration.
Best regards!
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