Canonical on /page/1 pages

[Afd-mark]

Hi, 

Does anyone know how to set a canonical on pages with this in the URL: /page/1?

Google is scanning them, but we don’t want that to happen. This occurs on the blog overview pages and author pages.

The issue is that these pages are not individual pages in HubSpot. For standalone pages, the canonical setting is easy to find in the settings.

Does anyone know how to set a canonical for these /page/1 URLs in this case? 

Thanks!

Leanne

[danmoyle · Accepted solution]

@Afd-mark have you tried to use HubSpot's canonical URL settings? 

In settings, go to Content then Pages and click the SEO & Crawlers tab. For blog listing pages, select the option to set canonical URLs. You can either:

Set each blog listing page's canonical URL to the first page in its series (useful if /page/1 should be prioritized).

Avoid adding canonical URLs to listing pages altogether, which is recommended when using rel=next and rel=prev tags for pagination.

Or if you prefer not to index /page/1 URLs at all, you could add a <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag in the header section of these pages via Advanced Options in the HubSpot content editor.

I found some other insights here if those ideas don't work.