SEO issue

Hi,

Since Google indexes the “Mobile First” version of websites, there is an SEO issue.

On desktop, https://www.mondeoz.com/ has only 1 homepage.
If it had a second one, because of pagination for example, an SEO variable in Yoast would add “page 2” (%%page%%) in the meta title.

But, because of the way the mobile theme is built, there are several homepages on the mobile version. And since the “Mobile First”, Google indexes them all. Obviously without the variable as it’s set for the desktop HP and not the “auto-generated” HP of the mobile version.

How can we fix that?

Thanks

Ask Simion or Calin to explain it to you.

Hi Simion,

That’s exactly what I meant.
Could you just help me to customize it so I get this format: TITLE PAGE SEPARATOR SITENAME

Thanks for your help

I’m talking about Yoast variables, so it reads like that in Yoast: %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%

My goal is to keep the same format so Google thinks it’s several pages of the homepage and not different ones.

Thanks

Hi Simion,

I pasted the code in the right place but it doesn’t seem to be working: https://ibb.co/vDtySYv

I double-checked my Yoast settings and everything seems fine to me: https://ibb.co/Cvz9kxY and https://ibb.co/XCdCMfS

Can you help me please?

Moreover, do you plan to fix it in the next update so we won’t have to change the code?

Thanks

Hi Calin,

Yes, it seems that this code broke the mobile version of my website.
I’ve just removed it and now it works well again.

Thanks

Hi again,

To explain further the SEO issue, look at this SERP: https://ibb.co/7gm9KzW
The result I circled is https://www.mondeoz.com/page/2/
But, on desktop, my HP doesn’t have a second page. So it’s showing the content of the 1st HP. And so it’s “duplicate content”. Moreover, as it’s showing the 1st HP, it doesn’t include the Yoast Page variable (“page 2”) and again the meta title is duplicate (with the one of the 1st HP).

The reason of all this is because now Google indexes websites from their mobile version.

As Newspaper mobile theme provides several HP pages, Google indexes them all, even for desktop SERP.

Hope it helped and you guys will manage to find a solution for the next update.

Thanks

Hi Calin,

I already did but, as I said before, now Google indexes mobile for all SERP.
So the only solution is to fix the yoast variable on the mobile theme.

Thanks

Hi,

Have you fixed this big issue on Newspaper X?

Thanks

Hi,

This means that you haven’t fixed this SEO issue, right?
Do you plan to fix it in a close future?

Thanks

As long as the mobile site home page and the desktop site homepage are the same URL, all you need to do is make sure the canonical link element is listed as the homepage, and not /page2 or whatever.

This should tell Google to only consider content on the homepage and not additional pages like /page2 as an alternate version that needs to be indexed.

That’s the problem, the canonical elemement is listed as page2 on Newspaper mobile theme and I do not intend to touch their code. That’s why I ask if they fixed it or not…

Hi,

Seems there was some misunderstanding. That’s my fault as I didn’t detail again my answer. Thought you would read or remember our previous chat.

The SEO issue is related to the variable %%page%%
When a second page is generated for the hompage, on AMP if I’m not wrong, the page URL is https://www.example.com/page/2/
But this second homepage doesn’t include the variable %%page%% into the meta title (even if the variable is present into the set up of the homepage) and that’s the problem.
As far as I know, this doesn’t happen for posts.

You can see it on the following URLs:
https://www.mondeoz.com/
meta title = Bons plans voyage et astuces pour voyager pas cher | Mondeoz
https://www.mondeoz.com/page/2/
meta title = Bons plans voyage et astuces pour voyager pas cher | Mondeoz
But it should be = Bons plans voyage et astuces pour voyager pas cher PAGE 2 | Mondeoz

You previously wrote “This problem was add on our fix list and we hope will be fix for the coming update, sorry for the inconvenience!”
That’s why I was wondering if it was fixed on this update, or not?

Thanks

Btw, the only way to make sure it doesn’t happen is to go into Appearance > Reading and set a hugeeeee amount of “Blog pages show at most” (more than the total amount of posts the website has). Then, there is no second page. But it doesn’t solve the problem, just doesn’t face it anymore…