Pagination/Crawl Errors
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Hi,
Ive only just joined SEO moz and after they crawled my site they came up with 3600 crawl errors mostly being duplicate content and duplicate urls. After researching this it soon became clear it was due to on page pagination and after speaking with Abe from SEO mozhe advised me to take action by getting our developers to implement rel=”next” & rel=”prev” to review. soon after our developers implemented this code ( I have no understanding of this what so ever) 90% of my keywords I had been ranking for in the top 10 have dropped out the top 50! Can anyone explain this or help me with this?
Thanks
Andy
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Hi,
Correlation doesnt always equal causation, what you reference is unlikely to be a cause of ranking decline inless something was done incorrectly e.g. have they rel prev'd your category page by mistake. (Even then im not sure that would cause an issue).
If you want to paste your site and an example url in here, ill gladly take a quick look when I have a minute.
Andy
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