Help removing parameter “?page=1” from pagination only for page 1

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Hi there,

As recommended by MOZ, I would need advice on how to remove those parameters from page 1.

I would like the first paginated result to point directly to the canonical instead of the “?page=1” URL.

Indeed that creates duplicate content through the site’s pagination. More specifically, a duplicate is created of the first collections page in a particular series. This is because once you’re on a paginated URL in a series, the link to the first page will contain “?page=1”:> >

First page in Shopify pagination links to ?page=1 link
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> > However, this will almost always be a duplicate page. A URL with “?page=1” will almost always contain the same content as the original non-parameterized URL.

Thanks

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solution here : https://github.com/Slam-City-Skates/better-shopify-pagination/blob/master/collection-pagination.liquid

you’ll need to slightly modify the github code (at least that’s what I did for my site to make it work).

Look for the section : {%- capture part_link_url -%} and replace the whole thing which is :

{%- capture part_link_url -%}
      {%- if part.title == "1" -%}
        {%- if template contains "search" -%}
        {{ part.url | replace: 'page=1', '' | replace: '?&', '?' | replace: '&&', '&' }}
        {%- else -%}
        {{ part.url | replace: '?page=1', '' }}
        {%- endif -%}
      {%- else -%}
      {{ part.url }}
      {%- endif -%}
      {%- endcapture -%}

by this :

{%- capture part_link_url -%}
      {%- if part.title == "1" -%}
        {%- if template contains "search" -%}
        {{ part.url | replace: 'page=1', '' | replace: '?&', '?' | replace: '&&', '&' }}
        {%- else -%}
        {{ part.url | replace: '?page=1', '' }}
        {%- endif -%}
      {%- else -%}
        {%- if template contains "collection" -%}
        {{ part.url | replace: '?page=1', '' }}
        {%- endif -%}
      {%- else -%}
      {{ part.url }}
      {%- endif -%}
      {%- endcapture -%}

Hope this helps.

The github code does not seem to work for the search template, but you should no-index it.

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That solution is bugged since it does not work if the sort_by option is enabled.

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{%- if paginate.current_page == 2 -%}
          
        {%- else -%}
          
        {%- endif -%}

{%- if part.title == 1 -%} 
        - {{ part.title }}

      {% else %}
        - {{ part.title }}
      {% endif %}