Rel next/ prev

[VUK-SEO]

We set up rel=next and prev tags on paginated pages with the same title- these are still showing as having duplicate titles - why is this?

[GPainter]

First off, I'm assuming you've create the tag correctly with a start and end page. Did you give the pages enough time to get re-crawled?

[DavidLee]

Hi Lee!

The only redirect our crawler will recognize is "rel=canonical," since it's considered best practice. Search engines are smarter than Roger, so it's likely that they recognize the tag even though our bot is missing it.

In the meantime you have a few different options. You could swap your "rel=prev" tags for "rel=canonical" tags, or just ignore the errors your seeing in your Crawl Diagnostics.

In the meantime, I'll be sure to note your feedback for our engineers and our product team. I can't guarantee that we'll change anything, but we'll definitely start keeping tabs on this as a feature request. You can also chime in about this on our feature request forum here: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-Moz-Feature-Requests

[VUK-SEO]

Thanks for your responses- yes it is implemented correctly.

Thanks David, was just looking to ensure it was the right thing to do. My understanding is that the rel next/ prev is the best practice for paginated content rather than the canonical which is for direct or near duplicates? It's always worth double checking. So fingers crossed it will not be a problem in terms of duplicate titles etc in Google with the next prev/next tag in place?

Look forward to chiming in on the form.

[DavidLee]

Anytime! And you should be ok with Google. Our product team is developing a feature to ignore certain parameters in crawl diagnostics so hopefully this will help for most e-commerce sites once it's available.