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Static homepage creating sub page
5 replies · Started by Jagdish on July 14, 2019
On my site I created a static page for homepage but theme is generating subpages of that with same content. This can be serious effect in SEO.
Google indexed mysite.com/page/2/, mysite.com/page/3/, mysite.com/page/4/ and so on with same content on them. I feel that theme should not create sub pages like this and a 404 error should be shown instead of actual home page on every subpage.
Hi there,
The theme doesn't create those pages - WordPress does.
It looks like your homepage is displaying posts using WP Show Posts, which explains why pagination is available.
Those pages shouldn't index unless robots are able to find them (using a link or a sitemap). Maybe you can exclude them from your sitemap?
Thanks for reply Tom. As earlier my homepage was my blog page, these sub pages were indexed then.
They are not in the site map.
Will wait to see if Google drops them, otherwise might redirect them.
This might help: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en
Thank you Tom, You are a great help.
No problem :)
