Adding rel=next / prev to pagination that uses Ajax?

[ocelot]

Hi

I have just been informed that I should be using the rel=next / rel=prev markup on my category pages and search results pages that use pagination.

How do i add these in?  Is it just the simple case of adding rel=next in the<a href="" for="" item="" in="" the="" pagination?<="" p=""></a>

<a href="" for="" item="" in="" the="" pagination?<="" p="">Also does this work if your are using AJAX - on page load it displays the search / category pages then uses AJAX for additional pages so there is no page refresh</a>

<a href="" for="" item="" in="" the="" pagination?<="" p="">Many Thanks</a>

[Lantec]

Yeah its simple enough to add.. Just the previous page to the one you are on with the rel tag "prev" and the next page with the rel tag "next".. As for your ajax issued im not too sure sorry, i dont see why it wouldnt work though.

[Dr-Pete]

It's tricky - these are http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

To steal their example, page 2 of search results is going to need 2 tags, like this:

If there's no page refresh and you're using AJAX, it's possible your paginated search isn't being indexed at all. It depends on what you're showing to bots. Unfortunately, that's nearly impossible to tell without seeing the site.