Does Moz recognize rel next prev tags? Magento question
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Howdy Mozzers!
We are running a store in magento where we have many products in each category. Hence view all for category pages is not an option. We have applied rel next prev tags to our paginated pages in the following manner
Example for page 2 in a category:
The issue we are facing is that Moz suggests www.domain.com/category and www.domain.com/category?p=1 as duplicates, even though rel next prev tags are implemented.
1. Does nel next prev consolidate link juice?
2. Does Moz recognize the tags?
3. Will this work for us or should we implement canonical tags as well? -
Thanks for all the resources and help Thomas.
Cheers!
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1. The tags do consolidate links to paginated series
YES
but Please see this as well
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663744?hl=en&ref_topic=4617741
Negative side effects of paginated urls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njn8uXTWiGg#t=143
All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njn8uXTWiGg
#2 YES
(1) Should I Use Rel=Canonical for Pagination?
http://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions
http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/conquering-pagination-guide.html
https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/fixing-seo-problems-with-html5/
http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/easy-ways-seo-can-kill-your-site
** use bread crumbs **
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/185417?hl=en&topic=1088474&ctx=topic
**& **
This
http://www.creare.co.uk/creare-seo-magento-extension
** I do believe that use "rel next prev"**
Sorry for the extremely long post. However, there is a lot of that I think is very helpful in regarding this topic.
Hope this helps,
Thomas
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Found an official resource on rel next prev tags http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
1. The tags do consolidate links to paginated series
2. Its an alternative for "canonicaling" to a view all page for ecommerce stores, where a view all page is **not possible **
I do not think a canonical tag is required in my case, since paginated pages are not strictly speaking "duplicates". A rel next prev seems alot more appropriate.
Whats your opinion on this?
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Hi Thomas,
Thanks for input and all the great resources. I have read Yoast's SEO guide in the past and I do agree its a great resource.
"1. Does nel next prev consolidate link juice?
Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5UL3lzBOA"
This video did not answer whether rel next prev tags consolidate link juice. Are you aware of any other authoritative resources that answer this?
"2. Does Moz recognize the rel next prev tags?
Yes"
In that case shouldent it recognize URL and URL?p=1 as the same page if they are using rel next prev? Or does rel next prev not indicate this? We could use 301 redirects to solve this?
"3. Will this work for us or should we implement canonical tags as well?
** Yes you must add rel canonical"**
If Rel next prev do consolidate link juice and tell google that this is a series, then what is the need of the canonical tag? Wouldent using rel next prev defeat its purpose if we had to use the canonical tag in our paginated pages as well?
I appreciate your valuable input in this discussion
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When properly setting up links you need to have them read like this. I believe this information will shed some more light on it
I think this would be a better format for your links obviously you can replace the "cat" with your chosen category
This website focuses mostly on WordPress but has a vast amount of Magento knowledge as well.
https://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/
I am assuming you have a method of introducing Canonical URL’s for Magento?
https://yoast.com/tools/magento/canonical/
This is a great tool/amount of information for Magento SEO
https://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html
&
http://searchengineland.com/google-provides-new-options-for-paginated-content-92906
if you are running e-commerce which I am sure you are and that is obviously a thing that will affect your bottom line there is a huge amount to be gained with a strong Review/audit with answers on what to do next to fix your issues if you believe that is needed.
A good place to get information on a site https://yoast.com/hire-us/website-review/
please do not think I am pushing Yoast it is just a very high quality site and I know that they are very familiar with Magento
1. Does nel next prev consolidate link juice?
Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5UL3lzBOA
2. Does Moz recognize the tags?
Yes
3. Will this work for us or should we implement canonical tags as well?
Yes you must add rel canonical
I hope this was of help,
Thomas
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