Simple Pagination and Rel Canonical
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Hello,
I am trying to find a solid solution to this. I think it is simple, but trying to think of a good setup for SEO.
If you have a paginated result set, page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4. What i am wondering is, should I point my REL CANONICAL page to Page 1 always, so i'm not loosing power from the first page?
Domain structure:
www.domain.com/search/[term]/page1/
www.domain.com/search/[term]/page2/Should I point all pages to page 1, so I don't get watered down as we go farther into the site?
Thoughts?
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Okay great thanks for that info, I will give that a shot.
Cheers.
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Hi Shaun,
Instead of pointing to canonical to first page its better to implement relation "next" and "prev". To more about this go through below Link from Google webmaster central:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
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