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Making Pagination Meta Tags Unique with DL Placeholders
A practical SEO note on appending page numbers to title and description fields for paginated listings in Evolution CMS.
Paginated archive pages often inherit the exact same title and description from the first page. That creates avoidable duplication and makes search snippets less useful. A simple improvement is to append the current page number to the metadata of page two and beyond.
The requirement
Page one should keep the base meta tags. Page two and later should look like:
Title – page 2Description – page 2
Why placeholders help
When pagination logic already exposes the current page number, the metadata layer can use the same value to produce unique SEO output without duplicating templates manually.
Recommended rule
- keep page one clean
- append the number only from page two onward
- apply the same rule consistently to title and description
It is a small change, but it makes archive pages more descriptive and less repetitive for search engines.
Why GET Parameters Disappear on the Home Page
A routing and redirect troubleshooting note for projects where GET parameters are stripped only on the site home page.
Working Safely with a price TV and PHx Modifiers
A template troubleshooting note for cases where a custom TV prints correctly but PHx modifiers fail on resource fields such as pagetitle.