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Pagination Markup or Navigation Issues on WordPress

Paginated content lacks proper rel="next"/rel="prev" hints or accessible pagination navigation, making it harder for search engines to discover all pages.

Issue ID: TECH-PAGINATION-001Severity: minorEffort: M

Why this matters

Paginated content lacks proper rel="next"/rel="prev" hints or accessible pagination navigation, making it harder for search engines to discover all pages. This affects crawlability, rendering, and whether the site can be interpreted correctly by search engines.

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How to fix this on WordPress

Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.

  1. 1Inspect the page and theme output.
  2. 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
  3. 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.

After you fix it

  • Check <head> for rel="next"/"prev" on paginated pages

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