Are pagination a bad thing for seo
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hi i am just checking my errors on my site and it is telling me about duplicate pagination results, so i am just wondering if pagination is bad for seo
for example
http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-2
i also have page 3 and page 4.
should i stop my site from having this to help with seo
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thank you for this. been reading this a few times but i am still puzzled on how to do it. i use joomla and now sure how i can impliment this, any more advice would be great
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Ok got the issue. You need to try this rel prev and next for the pagination series –
_Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
However, it also makes sense to include the page number in the [pagination series mate data._
_Page 1 - http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-2
Title: Benidorm News | Page 2
Meta Description: Our Lifestyle Magazine and Celebrity Gossip magazine is your no1 online Lifestyle Magazine for Fashion and Beauty, Holiday Reviews, Ladies Underwear and Holiday News .. Page 2And for these two pages -
http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news
http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-1Set this URL as canonical - http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news
Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html_
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sorry not showing properly below
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this is the problem i have here
Issue: Duplicate Page Title
<dl>
<dt>Page Title</dt>
<dd>Benidorm News</dd>
</dl>
Sample URLs with this Duplicate Page Title
URLs Internal Links External Links Page Authority Linking Root Domains http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-1
2 0 18 1 http://www.in2town.co.uk/benidorm/benidorm-news/Page-2
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Pagination can be a great thing for SEO because it helps Google identify the best page for certain results and it can offer a better user experience. I'm not sure what you mean by duplicate pagination results or where you are getting that data from, however, the goal of true pagination isn't having four pages, it's telling Google that THIS one of the four is the main page and the other three have similar content.
While I'm not sure if I am explaining it well, I think this is a great article to cover pagination: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience as is this one: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/mitigating-mixed-signals-effectively-consolidating-paginated-urls
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