Hi folks.

Instead of an archive page template in my theme (I have my reasons), I am thinking of simply typing the post title as and when I publish a post, and linking to the post from there.

Any SEO issues that you can think of?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, Paddy!

That was well timed!

I am in the process of developing a blog and am lining up my ducks SEO-wise before I go live. I think I have opened a can of worms.

I have asked the question of StudioPress - why a page allocated to Posts Page is not canonicalised, and neither are paginated pages. Category pages are canonicalised but I'd rather show a dedicated blog page as opposed to a category page for the blog (I only have one category).

I don't want to use a plugin.

I have even been tempted by Ghost but looks like I need a PhD to figure that out!

Thanks again

Hi folks.

I would like to discuss pagination.

I use WordPress (Genesis, specifically).

I ran my site through a site scan and it flagged an error which told me that my blog was producing duplicate meta descriptions because the  blog is paginated - the same meta description from the blog page is being used on Page 2, Page 3 etc.

I looked into this and the Internet is awash with many other people scratching around for a solution.

My understanding is that using a canonical link on the first page is not a good idea, because it says to Google that only Page 1 of the blog is important.

I also read an article that states Google no longer reads the Rel=Prev/Next code that could be used to tell Google to ignore the issue.

So, what's the solution?

Do I even need one?

As a side-thought, it seems to me that pagination is, well, pretty useless. I mean, if my blog has 20 pages and I've worked hard to create content, who is going to click through to anywhere near page 20? Nobody. There has to be a smarter way for people on-site to access content.

I would love your thoughts on all of this.

Cheers.