Forum generating automatically extra pages. Can I solve it with canonical?
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Hey there Webmasters of the Universe. So i have this problem with my forum. The platform I am using it automatically creates extra pages for every page. For exampleIf my forum had one page called forum.com/examplethe same page you can find at forum.com/example?page=1If I set rel canonical into the second one pointing to the first one will that cause a problem for me?Thanks in advance!
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You'll want to use pagination markup (rel=”next”/rel=”prev”) to handle this. See this article for specific guidelines.
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