@patrikhax
Google created those pages because there is some limit X on number of posts/articles per page. So when that is reached it automatically created page 2. There is no way you can stop that.
SEO Yoast had an option of disabling page/2/ etc coming up in search results for tags, categories etc. But it is stopped now.
Well, same issue for me. Sometimes the page/2/ version is way high in search results. Maybe it is because Google thinks page/2/ is better for user and not the first page.
We have removed the feature to noindex subpages of archives in Yoast SEO 6.3, you can read more about this here.
These pages should not have identical content, as they should each show different posts of your website. The only problem regarding these pages it having duplicate titles, which can be solved by adding the %%page%% variable in the title template. To do so, please refer to this guide.
Thank you for your answers! 🙂 But do we mean the same thing? 🙂 My homepage does not have any posts. And that’s the exactly same page on /page/2 and it gets indexed? 🙂
