Pagination question

[seoug_2005]

I have a website http://www.example.com  with pagination series starting with page1.html upto page10.html.

With backlinks to some of the pages ( page1.html, page2.html----page7.html). If i include rel="next" and rel="prev" on page1.html to page10.html pages.

Will value of those links will be transfered to http://www.example.com

This is what i interpret from  http://bit.ly/mUOrn2

Am i right ?

[KaneJamison]

If your goal is to send most people to the page1.html content, then yes, adding rel="next" and rel="prev" would be a good solution. But, if you want people reaching different content on each page, then it might not be the effect that you're looking for. Typically I see it used for search results and archive/category/tag pages.

Is there a reason you're paginating all that content manually? Sometimes a longer page can be an asset...

[Dr-Pete]

Rel=prev/next is still pretty new, so we don't have a lot of data, but it seems to work like a canonical tag. It should pass link-juice up the chain. That said, it's pretty rare for "page X" or search results (where X > 1) to have inbound links or much in the way of search value. I think cleaning up pagination can help a lot, if it's a big chunk of your search index.