You can use a rel="noindex" on the pages hyperlinks, this can be done with the theme.
no sure how to do it, im using pagenavi plugin for links to additional pages, i guess i will refer to the plugin support for help adding in additional tags to the links
thanks though, i was heading in the wrong direction trying to actually make the page noindex/nofollow as opposed to the link to it
try to edit wp-pagenavi.php file and add to every
echo '<a href=
a rel="noindex" attribute.
e.g.:
echo '<a href="'.clean_url(get_pagenum_link()).'" title="'.$first_page_text.'"> '.$first_page_text.' </a>';
into
echo '<a href="'.clean_url(get_pagenum_link()).'" title="'.$first_page_text.'" rel="noindex"> '.$first_page_text.' </a>';
great, working fine, thanks!
however, I realized I have a new problem. On page 2 (and every other page), I now have a pagenavi link going back to page 1, which is now marked as noindex. What will the effect be of doing this? Will spiders ignore this since page 2 is noindex anyway? Obviously the spider isn’t going to stop indexing page 1, because it’s the homepage, so is there any reason not to do this?
cheers
I don’t think thats a big problem but just to be sure u can try to change
echo '<a href="'.clean_url(get_pagenum_link()).'" title="'.$first_page_text.'"> '.$first_page_text.' </a>';
back.
didn’t work unfortunately, thanks for the help Ornani
i solved it by taking out the noindex for the first_page_text (as suggested), this ensured when you are on the last page for example, the link to the ‘first page’ is indexed.
next, i replaced this:
echo '<a href="'.clean_url(get_pagenum_link($i)).'" title="'.$page_text.'"> '.$page_text.' </a>';
with this:
if ($i == $start_page){echo '<a href="'.clean_url(get_pagenum_link($i)).'" title="'.$page_text.'"> '.$page_text.' </a>';}
else{echo '<a href="'.clean_url(get_pagenum_link($i)).'" title="'.$page_text.'" rel="noindex"> '.$page_text.' </a>';}
Then I found that the next and previous links were still indexing pages past the first page (The << and >> links) so I just removed these completely by deleting these lines:
next_posts_link($pagenavi_options['next_text'], $max_page);
previous_posts_link($pagenavi_options['prev_text']);
Don’t forget to add rel=”noindex” for the last page link
echo '<a href="'.clean_url(get_pagenum_link($max_page)).'" title="'.$last_page_text.'" rel="noindex">'.$last_page_text.'</a>';
