SEO pager offers an alternative to WP Page Numbers and its the one I am currently using myself. It works in the same way as Wp-Page Numbers with the exception being that it (should) automatically add in the code to the theme, making it a little more user friendly and simple to setup and activate.
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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This plugin sounds a little insignificant but its far from it. If you set up your blog with, for example a free theme, its quite typical to have the pages on your blog use a “next post” or “previous post”. This isn’t good for two reasons. [...]