Title: Paginated archives?
Last modified: July 15, 2018

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# Paginated archives?

 *  Resolved [PatrikHax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrikhax/)
 * (@patrikhax)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paginated-archives/)
 * Hey!
    I have a page as the homepage. And google indexes [https://example.com/page/2/](https://example.com/page/2/)
   and [https://example.com/page/4/](https://example.com/page/4/) and [https://example.com/6/](https://example.com/6/)
   and so on. Pages that are exactly the same. What should you do about it? And 
   why does WordPress create such pages?

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 *  [Akash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akashipe/)
 * (@akashipe)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paginated-archives/#post-10501188)
 * [@patrikhax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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.
 *  [MariusG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marius_codeinwp/)
 * (@marius_codeinwp)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paginated-archives/#post-10502566)
 * We have removed the feature to noindex subpages of archives in Yoast SEO 6.3,
   you can read more about [this here](https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-6-3/).
 * 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](https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-fix-duplicate-meta-tags/#subpages).
 *  Thread Starter [PatrikHax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrikhax/)
 * (@patrikhax)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/paginated-archives/#post-10528148)
 * 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? 🙂

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