Potential Pagination Issue/ Duplicate content issue
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Hi All,
We upgraded our framework , relaunched our site with new url structures etc and re did our site map to Google last week. However, it's now come to light that the rel=next, rel=Prev tags we had in place on many of our pages are missing.
We are putting them back in now but my worry is , as they were previously missing when we submitted the , will I have duplicate content issues or will it resolve itself , as Google re-crawls the site over time ?..
Any advice would be greatly appreciated?
thanks
Pete
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Hi Both,
many thanks for you help.
Pete
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John Mueller at Google has confirmed there are no internal duplicate content penalties of any kind, Google will determine the best page to show based on its algorithm. Let Googlebot do its job or you could go into webmaster tools and use the "Fetch as Google" tool to submit any pages you are concerned about or want to speed up. There is a limit of 10 pages per month so its best to submit the top level page and tell it to crawl all linked pages.
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Fix the tags and don't worry. As you say, Google will re-crawl and the issue will be resolved.
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