Pagination duplicate title and meta description

[Shawn124]

Hello,

Getting a lot of duplicate title and meta description errors via google webmaster tools.

For best SEO practices, do i no-index the page/2's, page/3's...?

More importantly, i see how MOZ did it by adding "page 3" to their titles such as http://moz.com/blog?page=3\.  Is that a better way of doing it?  If so, how do i do that on Yoast SEO?

Thank you so much!

[Shakur]

Hi there,

There are a lot of options, but there's serious danger in using the wrong structures.

Take a look on this post, it may help you http://moz.com/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience

Regards

[DennisSeymour]

You can just noindex those sub pages in Yoast under Titles and Metas

[Shawn124]

Shakur,

Thank you.  Is there a way to implement those tactics via Yoast SEO?

I made a post for it here as well:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-meta-title-and-description-best-practices?replies=1#post-6309222

[DennisSeymour]

I did in my answer above.

If you want to totally solve it, also add a canonical to lead to a page that has ALL your posts shown. (Done manually, not through yoast)

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

Here is a code solution - it adds " - Page: X" where X is a number of page. Add it to functions.php file of wordpress:

<code>php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-/**
 * Plugin Name: T5 Add page number to title
 * Description: Adds ` | Page $number` to the page title.
 * License:     MIT
 * License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 */if(! function_exists('t5_add_page_number')){function t5_add_page_number( $s ){global $page; $paged = get_query_var('paged')? get_query_var('paged'):1;! empty ( $page )&&1< $page && $paged = $page; $paged >1&& $s .=' | '. sprintf( __('Page: %s'), $paged );return $s;} add_filter('wp_title','t5_add_page_number',100,1); add_filter('wpseo_metadesc','t5_add_page_number',100,1);}</code>

[Brian-]

That's a slick piece of code but fortunately this is no longer an issue for titles of paginated posts when running the Yoast plugin.  The paginated pages say Page "#" of "total pages #".