Need advice on Business Directory Pagination

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[taryn_s]

Hi Kraismir,

There are definitely a few things you can do here. Firstly, I notice you're not using any canonical tags on your category pages. This will definitely help you out. Canonicalisation can be a tricky concept to grasp but there's a Moz article on it here. Grab yourself a coffee and have a read!

Secondly, I notice that the rel="prev" markup on page 2 of your London category is pointing to a different URL than the main page. The main page is http://toppages.co.uk/city/london/ but the prev markup is pointing to http://toppages.co.uk/city/london/page:1 - this will cause you duplication issues.

Finally, there is no need for any page other than the main page to appear in the rankings. You currently have 1,917 pages in the London category which are all competing with each other. The best way to get around this is to tell the search engines not to index any of the paginated pages, but still crawl the links on the pages to the individual listings. This can be done using the meta robots tags with the attribute 'noindex, follow'.

These are the three things I would recommend you do:

1. Add a rel="canonical" tag to all of the category pages. These should all point to themselves. For example, placing the following in the of the main category page will help you <link rel="canonical" href="http: toppages.co.uk="" city="" london="" "="">Page 2 should have the following  <link rel="canonical" href="http: toppages.co.uk="" city="" london="" page:2"="">and so on.</link rel="canonical" href="http:></link rel="canonical" href="http:>
2. Fix the prev markup on page 2 of the category to the following
3. Add the following to all paginated pages but not the main category page

That will definitely help you but let us know how you get on.

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[taryn_s]

Hi Kraismir,

While you're correct about the prev/next tags, it's extremely unlikely that anyone will want to use page 2 as an entry point to your website. Also, there is no content on page 2 which differentiates itself from page 2 - the title tags and meta descriptions are also the same. This is a very common issue with paginated pages and there are many examples of sites using the technique I described above. Take a look at the source code of page 2 of Yoast.com or page 3 of Laughing Squid and you'll see the same implementation.