Pagination settings for SEO

[Gipsy]

Hi everyone,

my prestashop version 1.7.3.4 has a nofollow pagination tag and canonical tag that point to the first category page.

So ../category?page=2 has a nofollow tag and a canonical page that point to ../category

I read here that having noindex/nofollow links inside pagination and a canonical tag that point only to first page could have a bad impact in google ranking.

I would like to delete the nofollow tag for pagination and change canonical tag so every page will point to itself.

I already changed my meta-titles and meta-descriptions for pagination (adding page number at the end) to avoid duplicate content issues.

I tried to proceed with the changes, but I stopped  for fear of compromise my current indexation.

In my google webmaster tools I can see that Google identify my first category page as canonical.

I know that the canonical content that google takes into consideration is not necessarily what I indicate within the site.

So.. i was wondering if these changes, instead of improving indexing, could actually hurt it!

Can anyone with some experience in this give me some advise?

[Debs89]

Could you please share your website?

 

regards,

Deborah Beams

Edited October 19, 2020 by Debs89 (see edit history)

[Gipsy]

Yes of course, my website is Lingerie-Shop.it

[larson210]

Do you have an answer to this very interesting post?
we can notice that if we click on the number 1 of the pagination (category for example) we have the url of the page which ends with:? page = 1
The concern is that it is exactly the same page as the basic one without this "? Page = 1" that makes us a duplicate page for google.
if you are on page 2 and you use the "prev" function it's the same, you will have the front page with "? page = 1" instead of the base url.
I give my personal example:
when I go to my "wood" category of my shop the url is:
https://www.bebecreation.fr/16-bois
if I click on the pagination to see the other pages, (2,3,4 ...) I would have this url:
https://www.bebecreation.fr/16-bois?page=2, https://www.bebecreation.fr/16-bois?page=3, https://www.bebecreation.fr/16-bois? page = 4 ......
If I click on 1 I will get this URL:
https://www.bebecreation.fr/16-bois?page=1
while I should have obtained this one:
https://www.bebecreation.fr/16-bois
Ditto with prev on page 2, if I am on page 2 of my category, using the peview button I will have the url with the end in: "? Page = 1" instead of https: // www .bebecreation.fr / 16-wood
this is valid for all the categories of the store with pagination.
Please bring us solutions if there are any.
Kind regards.

[Verlonimo]

Hi,

@larson210 What ps version you are using. For me on 1.7 version it works fine. Same as on prestashop demo. Which you can check here: https://demo.prestashop.com/#/en/front

Thanks

[larson210]

hi,

@Verlonimoi use 1.7.4.2 version