Pagination, SEO, and you
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So, i have done some research on this and I am running into 2 problems. We run a review site for a specific niche.
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wordpress is viewing our category pages as an "archive" which i don't know that it really is.
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Google seems to only be indexing the first 9 pages of this category. We would like google to be indexing these pages because thats the only place on our website where all our specific products are linked.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
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That's just a terminology thing, Wordpress refers to the category pages as a type of archive. You can see that in the template hierarchy described here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates. Is it causing you a specific problem?
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My first thought is that this is a crawlability issue, either crawl depth, or maybe some errant no-follow, but without looking at your site it's difficult to do more than theorise. If you only have back/next links, getting to page 10 is going to be quite a few links to follow...
I would, however, consider your site structure if the only way to get to some of your products is on page 10+ of a category page... It certainly doesn't say to Google that you consider those pages to be important.
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