I am getting the following message in ScreamingFrog with 83+ URLs noted.
Pagination: Pagination URL Not in Anchor Tag
Issue Priority: High
Description
URLs contained in either, or both, the rel=”next” and rel=”prev” attributes of the page, are not found as a hyperlink in an HTML anchor element on the page itself. Paginated pages should be linked to with regular links to allow users to click and navigate to the next page in the series. They also allow Google to crawl from page to page, and PageRank to flow between pages in the series.
How To Fix
Ensure paginated URLs are linked to within tags. This will allow them to be crawled and indexed, and pass PageRank onto any URLs they link to.
Hi,
If this is referring to this type of pagination – https://i.imgur.com/Biboy1p.png, then those are without a link on them because are using ajax to load the posts without reloading the page.
Thank you!
Hi both,
I’m seeing the same issue in Screaming frog and I’m not using Ajax paginations, I’m using proper ‘normal numbered’ SEO friendly pagination. This sounds like a pretty important error to sort out so would love some help on this please.
-A
A little more context:
I have a category page listing all posts in that category (let’s call it the ‘tips’ category)
I’m using normal numbered pagination but the theme is adding <link rel=”next” href=”https://www.website.com/tips/page/2/”> – When actually the hyperlinks on the next or numbered pagination buttons take the format of: https://www.website.com/tips/?tdb-loop-page=2
So this is really not good good in terms of SEO because paginated pages should be linked to with regular links to allow users to click and navigate to the next page in the series. They also allow Google to crawl from page to page, and PageRank to flow between pages in the series.
The advice coming from Screaming frog to fix this issue is:
Ensure paginated URLs are linked to within tags. This will allow them to be crawled and indexed, and pass PageRank onto any URLs they link to.
Oh.. and i’m using the ‘flex loop builder block’, incase that helps you diagnose the issue.
Hi Alastair Dixon, indeed this behavior is related to the “flex loop builder block” so to resolve this situation you’ll need to replace it with posts loop or post loop 2 element, but not flex loop elemnts.
Thank you!
Thanks Calin,
Can I ask why normal numbered pagination isnt working with the Flex loop builder? Isn’t this a newer flex block that’s more widely recommended by tagdiv nowadays?
Hi,
Normally all loop elements have the numbered pagination – https://i.imgur.com/G90jOO6.png this includes the flex loop builder.
Thank you!
I believe your observation is relevant – because all my pages that are searched with tags or pagination numbers similar to those mentioned by you in the posts above – they are not being indexed and present to Google as errors and failures.
Hello thalesbrandao, this is on our list to be checked by our developers.
Thank you!
Any update regarding this issue? I have to fix it as well.
