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Hreflang and paginated page
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Hi,
I can not seem to find good documentation about the use of hreflang and paginated page when using rel=next , rel=prev
Does any know where to find decent documentatio?, I could only find documentation about pagination and hreflang when using canonicals on the paginated page.I have doubts on what is the best option:
The way tripadvisor does it:
http://www.tripadvisor.nl/Hotels-g187139-oa390-Corsica-Hotels.html
Each paginated page is referring to it's hreflang paginated page, for example:So should the hreflang refer to the pagined specific page or should it refer to the "1st" page? in this case:
http://www.tripadvisor.nl/Hotels-g187139-Corsica-Hotels.htmlLooking foward to your suggestions.
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I found no examples, sorry...
I don't understand your comment about rel=canonical. There should be ONLY ONE rel=canonical, and it should reference its own page, EXCEPT in the rare case I outlined above where the content on two different country pages is essentially identical.
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
Did you found some examples of website which implemented hreflang on paginated pages?About the rel=canonical. Thanks for mentioning this. We are serving the same language (NL), but different content. So we haven't set the rel= canonical. Only a self refering canonical.
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Separate the language markup issue from the pagination issue, and treat each of the paginated pages just like any other page on the site.
You should have an hreflang statement for EVERY language page you support for each page in the pagination sequence, including the current page. So, for example, if we're looking at Italian page 17 of your Purple Widgets category, it should have an hreflang for the Italian page 17, as well as for the English page 17, French page 17, etc.
Rel=next and rel=previous should refer to the page from the same language as the page you're in, i.e. on Italian page 17, rel=prev should point to Italian page 16, and rel=next should point to Italian page 18.
I'm presuming, of course, that the content in the paginated pages is roughly equivalent, i.e. if it's a set of pages of purple widgets that you sort them the same way on the Italian version as the French, etc. But really, if you didn't....I'd still probably do it the same way.
Don't forget to set the rel=canonicals as well. Unless you're looking at two pages with the same language and content but targeting different countries (e.g. Portugal and Brazil, with no pricing info on the pages...in that case, you might rel=canonical both the Portuguese and Brazilian pages to one of those), each page will rel=canonical to itself.
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