Amount of pages indexed for classified (number of pages for the same query)

[nuroa-246712]

I've notice that classified usually has a lots of pages indexed and that's because for each query/kw they index the first 100 results pages, normally they have 10 results per page.

As an example imagine the site www.classified.com, for the query/kw "house for rent new york" there is the page www.classified.com/houses/house-for-rent-new-york and the "index" is set for the first 100 SERP pages, so

www.classified.com/houses/house-for-rent-new-york

www.classified.com/houses/house-for-rent-new-york-1

www.classified.com/houses/house-for-rent-new-york-2

...and so on.

Wouldn't it better to index only the 1st result page? I mean in the first 100 pages lots of ads are very similar so why should Google be happy by indexing lots of similar pages? Could Google penalyze this behaviour? What's your suggestions?

Many tahnks in advance for your help.

[Visiblics]

Hi Nuroa,

You could use rel=Canonical tab, this code help you in telling Google which page to count.

You can also use rel="canonical" and "rel=prev/next" together for pagination problem. You can simply use rel=prev/next with the base URLs, and then rel-canonical to the page level.

Besides, this post can give you more idea about this issue: http://www.seomoz.org/q/avoiding-duplicate-content-in-e-commerce-product-search-sorting-results

I hope this helps