Am I using pagination markups correctly?
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Hey Mozzers!
I am receiving duplicate title tag errors from Search Console on paginated pages (blog.com/chlorine, blog.com/chlorine-2, blog.com/chlorine-3). I do not currently have a view all page. If I were to create one, would I add all the content from chlorine-2 and chlorine-3 to the blog.com/chlorine page? Then use the rel=cononical on chlorine-2 and chlorine-3 to blog.com/chlorine?
If I move forward without the view all page, I could implement the next/prev HTML markups but can I do this without dev help? I am currently using the Yoast SEO plugin and do not see the option. Would I use the text editor to add the markups directly before the content?
I think I have a grasp on this, but this will be my first time implementing and I want to double check first! Thanks!
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Here is the view all page I created. Each of the anchor text links will take you into each paginated page (6 in total). All 6 of these pages have a canonical tag back to view all page.
Did I set that up correctly? Thanks for your insight!
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Sure, please share an example URL to help me suggest you on this.
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Sorry Nitin, I just saw this message! Would you still like to review, I can always send the URL along. Thanks!
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Could you please share the URL here? Would like to have a look at the way you've implemented this.
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Update
I did not initially have a view all page, the first page simply had a sentence and read more anchor text to each chlorine article /chlorine-2, /chlorine-3. I went ahead and took page one (blog.com/chlorine) and used this to create a full article. I took a paragraph, or more, from each page (blog.com/chlorine-2, blog.com/chlorine-3) with a link to the full article.
I then added rel=conanical to blog.com/chlorine-2 and blog.com/chlorine-3 back to blog.com/chlorine. I think I've gotten it all squared away. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks Moz!
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Hi,
The best way to handle this kind of scenario is by implementing pagination wisely. Even if you don't have a view all page for your content, may be you're doing lazy loading or something similar to show the entire content to your users but bots' HTML snapshot misses all this content. Hence, its better to support pagination and expose them to bots using proper pagination.
All you need to implement is a doubly linked list kind of structure where your first page's next pointer points to second page and it doesn't have prev pointer; second page's prev pointer points to first page and its next pointer points to the 3rd page; similarly last page doesn't have next pointer but its prev pointer points to the second last page. You can refer this guide for implementing the same. This site can be referred to understand how exactly to implement this.
Yes, its really trivial to implement this, you might need a dev's help though if yoast doesn't support this. Hope this helps!
Feel free to write here if you need any further assistance on this. Cheers!
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