Canonical tags on paginated pages – WPSEO

Anonymous

#30910

Hi,

I’m using “Search & Filter Pro” on my website Home Page (with a shortcode) and on my search.php template. And I’m very happy with it !

I noticed a little compatibility problem with SEO plugins like “WordPress SEO” from Yoast.

“Wordppress SEO” from Yoast automatically adds canonical tags on paginated pages like this :

<link rel="prev" href="http://mydomain.com/page/1" />
<link rel="next" href="http://mydomain.com/page/3" />

or that

<link rel="prev" href="http://mydomain.com/search/page/1" />
<link rel="next" href="http://mydomain.com/search/page/3" />

But these URL send 404 errors because “Search & Filter Pro” doesn’t use the default WordPress pagination.

I tried unsuccessfully to use the “WordPress SEO” filters (wpseo_prev_rel_link & wpseo_next_rel_link) to customize these canonical URLs to look like this:

<link rel="prev" href="http://mydomain.com/?sf_paged=1" />
<link rel="next" href="http://mydomain.com/?sf_paged=3" />

and

<link rel="prev" href="http://mydomain.com/search/?sf_paged=1" />
<link rel="next" href="http://mydomain.com/search/?sf_paged=3" />

For now, I’m using a function to prevent addition of prev/next rel link by WordPress SEO (https://gist.github.com/tacoverdo/7102453) but it would be nice to work it out ! 😉

Do you have a fix for that ?

Thank you.

Anonymous

#30912

I almost found a solution:

I used a custom function to generate new canonical tags on paginated pages:

function wpseo_custom_rel_next_prev_canonical_links(){
    global $paged;
    
    if ( get_previous_posts_link() ) {
        echo "<link rel='prev' href='".get_pagenum_link( $paged - 1 )."' />";
    }

    if ( get_next_posts_link() ) {
        echo "<link rel='next' href='".get_pagenum_link( $paged +1 )."' />";
    }

}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'wpseo_custom_rel_next_prev_canonical_links' );

It works on my search page which use search.php. But it return nothing on my home page which use a shortcode to insert “Search & Filter” results. I think get_previous_posts_link() and get_next_posts_link() return false or $paged doesn’t exist on this page…

Anonymous

#106093

Hi,

Did you ever figured this out? I am also getting error 400 because the paginated pages of the shop are like this :

http://www.teambuildingmadeeasy.com.au/shop/?sf_paged=4

I have over 2000 of error 400 links because of this and my website dropped in rank.

Is there any solution to this.

Please help.

Anonymous

#135846

Any info in here? That would be helpful!

Trevor

#135862

As it is WP SEO adding these, you would need to use their filters to change what is output.

See these pages as an example:

https://gist.github.com/amboutwe/2aa7dcc9a38986e11fac68c7306cc091

https://kb.yoast.com/kb/is-the-plugin-compatible-with-paginated-content/

If you explained what you need on their help forums, I am sure you would get some better examples.

[Author]

Posts