Hello!
Looking at the source (<body> classes), I believe that’s not an archive but a page embedding an archive via Kadence Blocks? That’s just messing with WordPress; we must discern one or the other, not act on both simultaneously, because that’ll cause a plethora of logical issues.
TSF runs its metadata in the header (as it must), and by then, we must already know what’s in the content, which isn’t possible when Kadence “thinks out of the box” and changes course whilst generating the page.
Nevertheless, the canonical URLs of the paginated subpages lead to the root page. So, this shouldn’t be an issue (actually, it could be in the long run for other reasons, which I won’t dive into now). Perhaps Google has yet to process the pages, and once they do, they’ll discover the canonical URL leading elsewhere and discard the ‘paginated’ page from their index.
For now, I recommend doing nothing and wait (about three weeks) for Google to update the report.
Hi there
Thanks for your earlier response. It’s now seven weeks and the pages are still showing as ‘indexed, not submitted in site map’. I think Google must have updated because newly published pages have also been indexed. What are the next steps?
Izzy
Hi there
This is marked as resolved, but it isn’t resolved. I am still having this issue and Google hasn’t worked it out as you suggested. I am concerned that Google is indexing hundreds of pages with thin content, not great for site SEO.
Please can you respond with a resolution.
Thanks Izzy
Hi Izzy,
Please reread my first reply. You’re facing an issue with the Kadence Blocks. Still, it resolved itself since TSF’s “AI” couldn’t recognize a valid pagination query: The canonical URL of The SEO Framework points to the main page, which means that search engines will forgo indexing the “paginated” page and go to the “first” page instead.
