Robots and Canonicals on Moz

[PMPLawMarketing]

We noticed that Moz does not use a robots "index" or "follow" tags on the entire site, is this best practice?

Also, for pagination we noticed that the rel = next/prev is not on the actual "button" rather in the header

Is this best practice? Does it make a difference if it's added to the header rather than the actual next/previous buttons within the body?

[DirkC]

You don't have to put index & follow - that the default behaviour. It's only when you don't want to be indexed or links to be followed that you have to indicate it.

Rel next/previous have to be in the header - check https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663744?hl=en  - not on the links themselves.

Dirk