What to do with "show all" page

[Uniline]

Hello,

What should I do with the following situation:

In e-commerce shop I have an option to "show all products" (list all products in one page) - do I need to put canonnical or 301 redirect to somewhere or should I leave as normal page  - I think google consider this is as duplicate since everything is the same (only number of products is different) ?

Regards,

Nenad

[Davenport-Tractor]

Nenad,

We have a similar issue, and we Canonical any paginated pages to the show all page. The Show all page does not need to be canonicaled because it is the root of all the products.

[joseph.chambers]

No, dont 301 to a 301 website.com/category/title/ to website.com/category/title/?view=all - you just need to set the canonical of website.com/category/title/ to website.com/category/title/?view=all

Good luck!

[CleverPhD]

You need to read this article and watch this video by Maile Ohye.  She goes over pagination and rel next and prev

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html

She also mentions how to use rel=canonical in this system as well and when it is appropriate.

You would only want to use the 301 redirect if you were deleting the page or changing the URL and wanted to get you users to the correct page as the old url was not working anymore.

Cheers!

[Uniline]

Hi to all,

Sorry for my late response. Thank you all for advices, this will definitely help.

Regards,

Nenad

[Uniline]

Hi Allen,

Can you please confirm that this is the right way to implement this solution:

So right now situation is:

Show all page is: http://www.page.com/abc.html?=viewall

This is the category page: http://www.page.com/abc.html and canonical is set to this page.

Page 2 of category is: http://www.page.com/abc.html?page=2 with following parameters:

If I understand correctly I should implement canonical in this way:

Main (category) page (http://www.page.com/abc.html) will have these parameters:

Page 2 will have these parameters:

Is this correct?

Thank you very much,

Nenad

[Dr-Pete]

Agreed - Google seems to be ok with setting a rel-canonical to the "View All" page. Don't combine this with rel=prev/next - both methods are ok, but either use one or the other. Using both sends a mixed message about what you want to have indexed and ranked.

Real-world data about rel=prev/next is hard to come by. I know SEOs at big companies who have done testing, but it's really unclear how Google honors/indexed paginated content with rel=prev/next in place. My gut feeling boils down to this:

(1) If you can reasonably build a "View All" page that loads quickly and is a decent user experience, go ahead and rel=canonical to that page. It's just easier, all-around, and rel=canonical is a more powerful directive.

(2) If that isn't feasible, and/or if you want individual search pages (2+) to have the ability to rank, then use rel=prev/next.

[Uniline]

Peter, thank you very much for your response!

My only concern about view-all page was that main page (category) has better PA so my conclusion was that I should set canonical to view-all page to point to main page.

[Dr-Pete]

It's a bit tricky, since your category page will naturally have internal links. I wouldn't canonical all the paginated versions to View All and then canonical the View All to the main category - that's likely to cause some problems. If you really want to focus on page 1 as the category (and not the View All), then I'd probably consider rel=prev/next.