Google is not indexing forum pagination pages?

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Google is not indexing forum pagination pages?

surenot

6:15 pm on Oct 4, 2014 (gmt 0)

My website is a forum and it has many thread with multiple pagination pages but I have noticed Google only indexes the thread 1st page that is it doesn't index any pages passed 1st what is the problem how to fix that? I have included rel next prev recently but makes no effect?

Here is my URL is you don't allow URLs please delete it but leave the post as this is really serious issue for me a ton of content doesn't get indexed.

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[edited by: aakk9999 at 6:43 pm (utc) on Oct 4, 2014]
[edit reason] Sorry, as you guessed, I had to remove the URL [/edit]

aakk9999

6:39 pm on Oct 4, 2014 (gmt 0)

I have two questions:

1) How do you know Google does not index your pages 2 onwards? How did you check?

For example, have you taken some unique text from (lets say) your page 2 of one of your threads and searched for it in quotes? If you get many other results, you can try to do the following search on Google:

site:example.com "My unique text, about one sentence in quotes"

If you get result, then it is indexed.

2) Have you checked if your rel next/previous syntax is correct?

The declaration must go to <head> section and it should be in the following format:
<link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/my-url-of-the-previous-page" />
<link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/my-url-of-the-next-page" />

phranque

7:56 pm on Oct 4, 2014 (gmt 0)

have you checked your web server access logs to verify that googlebot has crawled the entire collection of documents after you added the link rel next prev elements?

seoskunk

10:58 pm on Oct 4, 2014 (gmt 0)

I have no problem with pagination pages and don't use rel next/previous. Sounds like another problem to me have you checked your parameters in WMT you could be blocking indexing.

surenot

11:16 pm on Oct 4, 2014 (gmt 0)

I had robots.txt file that i deleted today maybe it was blocking those pages.

I simply input pagitation page url into Google and press search which only returns the 1 page. However when i use site:example.com/pagitation in many cases pagitation pages show. It looks like they are not included in the index.

What should i check for in webmaster tools account?

seoskunk

11:21 pm on Oct 4, 2014 (gmt 0)

Check your parameters in WMT and also don't just delete robots.txt try to update it. You can test if robots.txt is blocking a page through WMT as well.

Mentat

6:25 am on Oct 5, 2014 (gmt 0)

What type of engine do you use for your forum?
On IPB I see google accessing an complex URL that display all the posts from a topic.

aakk9999

11:54 am on Oct 5, 2014 (gmt 0)

However when i use site:example.com/pagitation in many cases pagitation pages show.

If the site: command shows paginated pages, then Google has them in its index.

Have you tried to search for unique text in quotes that exists only in paginated thread and see if you get a result? You may try to search for this string in conjuction of "site:example.com" and without it too.

What are the results?

surenot

12:53 pm on Oct 5, 2014 (gmt 0)

Please allow me to post URL so that experts can take a look?

Checking my webmaster account I have not issues of any kind.

My forum runs on MYBB forum script.

I search for:
http(://)exaple(dot)com/page?page=2
Returns no results

When I search for:
site:exaple(dot)com/page?page=2
Shows the page!

surenot

6:02 pm on Oct 7, 2014 (gmt 0)

P.S. Should I add pagination pages into sitemap

aakk9999

1:49 am on Oct 8, 2014 (gmt 0)

Please allow me to post URL so that experts can take a look?

Unfortunately you cannot post your URL here. We do however have Review My Site [webmasterworld.com] forum for supporters (subscribers) of WebmasterWorld and the site can be reviewed there.

With regards to your search queries, it most likely means that the page is too weak and it only shows when the search is explicitely done for your site.

Have you tried to take a sentence of the text from your page 2 and search for it in quotes? If so, do you have any results returned?

not2easy

2:39 am on Oct 8, 2014 (gmt 0)

Just a quick note - the site: search has a correct format which is:

site:example.com

no spaces, no http and to add a page at the end of the domain name is actually asking for all pages on that page. Stick to the simple format or discard any results. You can add a directory to list pages in a directory, in this format:

site:example.com-site:example.com/directory

(again, no spaces).

surenot

12:33 pm on Oct 8, 2014 (gmt 0)

That is odd Bing too didn't index pagination pages! Man what is going on?

JesterMagic

11:37 am on Oct 12, 2014 (gmt 0)

Google indexes my forum pages but in the serps where they combine multiple listing into one listing they show topics of having up to 10 posts and dates that are really old. This is not the case. These forum posts span multiple pages and are active. This combined listing seem to only think their are only 1 page to these topics. I thought pagination would have taken care of this.