: Should "next posts pages" be included in the sitemap? I wonder if including the "next posts pages" to sitemap would be a good idea. With "next posts pages" I mean for example domain/page/{num},

@Heady270

Those pages are not high quality pages. Who would want to land on page five of unanswered questions on this site? Nobody.

These are low quality pages because:


They only a list made of of content found elsewhere on your site.
If a user does land on this type of page, they have to click to the content.
Even if a user does want a list of this type of content, they would be better served by page 1.
The list is constantly changing as you add new posts, so the content the user is searching for may have actually fallen off the page.


I recommend that sites use the meta robots noindex tag on all pages except for page 1 of pagination. Google measures the quality of pages on your site by sending users to those pages and seeing how many of them bounce back to Google to click on something else or refine their search. When Google finds that a page is low quality, it stops ranking for any keywords. When Google finds that your site has lots of low quality pages, your entire site may stop ranking well. This is one of the major components of the Panda algorithm.

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