How to handle pagination SEO/Duplicate Title tags in Webflow?

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Hi guys… My Website on Webflow with 60+ paginated pages for job listings, categories, & job types. I noticed duplicate meta titles & descriptions in SEMrush, and Google is indexing paginated pages like:

  • https://www.sustainabilityjobs.co/?19e12582_page=2
  • https://www.sustainabilityjobs.co/?19e12582_page=3

I have set canonical tags in Webflow SEO settings, but SEMrush still flags these pages. Also, manually setting unique canonicals for each page isn’t practical.

Questions:

:one: Should I noindex pagination pages or let Google index them? not good for SEO
:two: How can I set self-referencing canonicals dynamically in Webflow? no option to do so
:three: How can I automatically generate unique meta titles for each paginated page (e.g., “Global SustainabilityJobs List | Page 2”)? no option to do this in webflow
:four: Is there a way to add rel="prev" & rel="next" in Webflow? Google is not allowing/using these

Please guide me any way i can solve this issue. will be very thankful to you.

thanks

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You’re overcomplicating things. Webflow is approaching this appropriately, just let it do its thing. You’d need a clear reason to muck with this.

This is a good thing. You want your pages indexed, and Google found relevant keywords on that specific page with that specific pagination on the collection lists.

SEMrush would flag these pages no matter whether the canonical is;

https://www.sustainabilityjobs.co/?19e12582_page=2

or

https://www.sustainabilityjobs.co

It’s not reporting an error, simply an observation. If the pagination querystring was NOT included in the canonical, SEMrush would flag it as duplicate canonical across multiple pages.

Answers:

1 - Let Google index them. Good for SEO.
2 - You already have them. Check your canonicals, they match the page URL.

You’re misunderstanding how Webflow pagination works - it’s collection list level, not page level. The reason for the funky id e.g. 19e12582 is that it indicates a specific collection list. If you have 20 paginated collection lists on your page, and all of them are navigated to page 2+, you’d have 20 of these querystring params on this URL.

Webflow has no concept of a “primary” collection list on a page.

3 - Doesn’t work ( plus, how would you describe page 2 of results differently, and where would that be specified? )
4 - Doesn’t work. Without a primary collection list, there’s no concept of next or previous. Not even sure what that would look like regarding other companion collection lists and their own individual pagination states.

You could theoretically write custom code to take your preferred collection list, look at the pagination, and create rel prev/next for you. Google would see them, but Google no longer uses them for indexing. That was dropped in 2019.

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Thanks @memetican … i always get confuse when ever view semrush reports…