Unlinked Pagination URLs

What This Means

URLs contained in the rel=”next” and rel=”next” attributes are not linked to across the website. Pagination attributes do not pass PageRank like a traditional anchor element, so this might be a sign of a problem with internal linking, or the URLs contained in the pagination attribute.

What Triggers This Issue

This issue is triggered when URLs in the rel=”next” and rel=”next” attributes are not linked elsewhere on the website. For example:

https://www.getasky.com/ Has the tag:

<link rel="next" href="https://www.getasky.com/page2/"> But https://www.getasky.com/page2/ is not linked to from anywhere on the website (i.e. it’s an orphan page).

How To Fix

Ensure paginated URLs are linked to within <a> tags. This will allow them to be crawled and indexed, and pass PageRank onto any URLs they link to.

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