brianscoop

Joost,

Those settings are correct on my site, and still, I’m getting rel=next where there shouldn’t be.

Please look at:
http://www.openmoves.com/portfolio/email-marketing/manufacturing/

The source code on that page has:
<link rel=”next” href=”http://www.openmoves.com/portfolio/email-marketing/manufacturing/page/2/&#8221; />

But there is no page 2. This is a source of frustration for many months and it’s happening on other sites of mine as well.

Maybe this wasn’t explained well. This seems like a major bug to me unless I’m doing something wrong. I am at a loss for how to handle this and really need help!

Something is causing WP to generate rel=’next’ tags in the header that point to non-existent pages. It must be the WordPress SEO plugin. Please view the source, for ex, on http://www.openmoves.com/portfolio/email-marketing/technology/page/2/

Note that in the head section there is the line:
<link rel=”next” href=”http://www.openmoves.com/portfolio/email-marketing/technology/page/3/&#8221; /> – That page does not exist.

And this goes very deep on the upper level pages like
http://www.openmoves.com/portfolio/page/14/

And those non-existent pages DON’T produce a 404 – they producs an empty page with yet another rel=”next” like in:
http://www.openmoves.com/portfolio/page/15/

This goes on ad infinitum!

So Googlebot can see those pseudo pages but will be very unhappy about crawling them, finding no content, and yet endless links to more and more!

Any ideas? Help!