vladoa

Thank you!

I wouldn’t share it publicly because of NDA but what I ended up doing is changing the AMP permalink structure to ?amp instead of /amp/
I also have custom hierarchical taxonomies so it was confusing the plugin and I decided to use the query string option ?amp
The issue is still there though, and I described the steps to reproduce in my initial post.

Oh wow, amazing! And such a fast reply! I’ll check out the 2.7 beta, thanks!

@marcanor thanks for the reply – this hook helped me add noindex to subpages.

@amboutwe I see that YOAST’s stance is to still do index subpages. I understand that and I get the point of “correctly calculating dofollow internal links” to posts, but there is one thing that remains:

Subpages rarely have any unique or meaningful content – they are very thin pages. Their sole purpose is navigation. I know that Google sees things from generic perspective, that on those pages there *might* be unique content, so they prefer to check them (and eventually index them), but in reality that is rarely the case.
It is quite hard for me to come up with a scenario where I would prefer that users land on a “Page X of Y” page rather than on an actual post/page.
To me it seems like a waste of crawling budget – I would rather noindex them and send Googlebot to pages that actually have unique and lengthy content. Like focusing a laser. It’s more economical and efficient. Imagine how much energy (money) would be saved if WP sites stopped indexing their thin subpages and focus on what is actual content.
You guys don’t have to agree with me, it’s just my 2 cents on the topic.