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A SEO audit of a WordPress / WooCommerce site has revealed a stack pages with poor URLs like: https://mydomain.A SEO audit of a WordPress / WooCommerce site has revealed a stack pages with poor URLs like:  https://mydomain. com/page/123/ They all show the site homepage. Any number is a valid URL e. g. even https://mydomain. com/page/1234567890/ What is causing this? Does it cause duplicate content issues? Solution? Thank for any insight you can provide.  
https://mydomain.com/page/10/
A SEO audit of a WordPress / WooCommerce site has revealed a stack pages with poor URLs like: https:

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Try to know about Pagination technical
by (190 points)
@arnelle1 thank you I will read up on this.  
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If pagination pages are returning the homepage, this may be due to a plugin on the homepage. Badly coded sliders can do it, for example.  
by (190 points)
@fiddlefaddle thanks for the pointer. I will check this though. Will this be affecting the SERPS rankings?  
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Paul, I don't think it will create any serious problems. It is just about the best practices and the website's hygiene.  
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To elaborate: there is a redirect to the homepage, so no duplicate content. Also, it is a small website, well above the crawl budget. So no real harm is done. But of course, fixing it is the best course of action.  
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I guess 1 in 3 themes have problems with pagination. Nofollow on links to page/2, page/3 etc. Noindex on those. Both. Canonical to "page 1". But redirect / rewrite to "page 1"? Why not, everything is possible
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Whatever is doing that is hurting the site's crawl. Are there alternative ways for visitors (and therefore crawlers) to get to every page on the site? If not, I'd look into replacing whatever is screwing up the archive index pages.  
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