What if Paginated Pages all have PageRank?

[MadeLoud]

Paginated Pages, page 2,3,4 etc.... they aren't supposed to have a PageRank, right?  If they are only linked to from themselves, only the original page, Page 1, is supposed to be showing PageRank?

I'm trying to double check that I am handling this right.  I'm not using canonical, or noindex or any of that... just using rel next and prev, which I thought would be fine.

Thoughts?

[NakulGoyal]

Yes, by using rel=prev,next, you are telling Google that these are paginated. I wouldn't worry about the fact that they have pagerank. It's flow of link juice internally and that's totally fine.

The question I have is whether you have a View-All page ? The reason I am asking is to understand if that could be causing you any duplicate content issues because if you do not have a canonical and you have a View All page, then all your paginated pages are subsets of your View-All page and you might want to think how you are handling that.

See:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/view-all-in-search-results.html

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

[MadeLoud]

Right, yea I understand.  No, there's no View All, so I think it's fine.

[NakulGoyal]

Great. You are good then. Nothing to worry. Pagerank on those paginated pages is Good.