Duplicate meta descriptions with pagination

[ouyi]

When pagination is enabled, the description tags are identical for the paginated pages. Google Search Console lists this as an issue under Search Appearance => HTML Improvements => Pages with duplicate meta descriptions .

Is it possible to include the page number in the description when pagination is enabled?

For example:

<meta name="description" content="My description - Page 2 of 3">
<meta property="og:description" content="My description - Page 2 of 3">
...

[benbalter]

If anyone is interested in taking this issue on, I believe the relevant change would need to be made here.

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[alokpant]

@benbalter Can I look into this? So to make sure that I understand:

when pagination is enabled it should show something like this:

<meta name="description" content="My description - Page 2 of 3">
<meta property="og:description" content="My description - Page 2 of 3">

if not

<meta name="description" content="My description">
<meta property="og:description" content="My description">

[benbalter]

@alokpant Yep. Exactly that. #250 may be a good place to start as it looks like it solved a similar problem.

[alokpant]

Cool thank you. I will look into the reference and try to solve this too. @benbalter

[alokpant]

@benbalter bit confused, shouldn't change be required here rather than here as you provided as a clue above. Issue is to change meta-description.

How can I test it before submitting PR?

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If this is a bug and you can still reproduce this error on the master branch, please reply with all of the information you have about it in order to keep the issue open.

If this is a feature request, please consider whether it can be accomplished in another way. If it cannot, please elaborate on why it is core to this project and why you feel more than 80% of users would find this beneficial.

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