Hi Pixelwunder 🙂 I don’t really understand the question – every page/post DOES have a description, no? Thanks for clarification!
Normally you have one post or one page and you have a boy for the description. But when you split one normal page in 3 or more pages, with the break <– next page –> or something like this in the text area, you only have one possibility to write a description. But not for the other parts. After this you have prev/next part 1, part 2, part 3
Oh, now I get it! This is indeed interesting question. Currently, the only way to achieve what you want is writing separate post/pages… if you really must do that.
Personally I wouldn’t recommend even trying to set separate descriptions for each page, after all both wordpress and google look at paginated content as one article and main SEO benefit seems to be correct linking.
Can I ask you why do you think that separate descriptions would be beneficial? Can you offer an example? I might be wrong in my assumptions. Thanks!
Hi @pixelwunder,
Using <!--nextpage--> to create multiple topics is far from recommended. It’s meant to have pagination on one topic with one uniform body.
WordPress (and the Theme) will take care of the layout. But for Google, it’s meant to be seen as one long page.
As @lebaux mentioned, Google describes how it’s done: Use rel next/prev tags.
The SEO Framework does that for you, but it’s disabled by default because the pagination feature in WordPress is often overlooked.
To enable the feature, follow these steps:
- Go to the SEO Settings page.
- Open the General Settings meta box.
- Open the Canonical tab.
- Check “Add
rel link tags to Posts and Pages?”.
- Save settings.
Then the pages will be linked together. And all subsequent descriptions will be ignored as Google wants to target the first page almost always (unless one searches for a very specific answer). The pagination titles are also often ignored; on Google, they are being added in gray next to the description in their snippets.
That’s really all there’s to it. I can’t recommend setting up multiple descriptions for such index because of the programming difficulty while it’s also very uncommon (unique) doing this.
