Wordpress – Adding Page Numbers to Meta Tags

Here’s a quick tip for WordPress users.   Identical title tags on pages are frowned upon by search engines, so ideally you want each title tag (and meta description) to be unique. 

With WordPress you’ll find that your second page, third page etc all have the same title.   You can fix this with the following PHP code:

 

<?php if ($paged < 2){} else {echo (‘ Page ‘); echo ($paged);} ?>

 

By inserting the above into the title tag – if the page is the page 1, nothing will happen but for any other pages it will append “Page #".

You can use similar code in the Meta Description too to help make it unique.