Best practice for Wordpress /page/2/

[SirMax]

I realize that it might be a minor point but it still bugs me.

We have a blog with a number of posts. Content of the posts does not expire or age (in the rare case something changes, we do update the information in the posts). The wordpress blog is setup to display our latest posts and displays 15 posts at once. Since we have a lot of content, the older posts get pushed off the front page which is understandable and desirable behavior. However the pages that have older posts have names like "/page/2/", /page/3/, /page/4/ and so on. This does not look very SEO or user friendly to me.

What do you think?

Did you come up with something better then /page/ and then a number?

[LauraSultan]

We usually noindex the archives subpages and sometimes the main blog page itself (if it isn't the home page). I'd prefer to see the individual blog post pages in search results than page 2 of blog index page. Depending on how your blog is set up, you run the risk of an internal duplicate content issue. The only way to guarantee that the search engines prioritize the single post page is to noindex the blog index pages.

[SirMax]

Thanks. That is a good idea and we are already doing it. Moz scan gave us plenty of warnings of duplicate content so I fixed it.