Follow no-index

[Happy-SEO]

I have a question about the right way to not index pages: With a canonical or follow no-index.

First we have a blog page:

**Blogpage **
URL: /blog/
index follow

Page 2 blog:
URL: /blog?=p2  
index follow
rel="prev" /blog/ 
el="next" ?=p3

Nothing strange here i guess. But we also have other pages with chance on duplicate content:

/SEO-category/
/SEO-category/view-more/

Because i don't want the "view-more" items to be indexed i want to set it on: follow no-index (follow to reach pages). But now the "view-more" also have pagination. What is the best way?

Option 1: 
/SEO-category/view-more/ 
Follow no-index

/SEO-category/view-more?=p2
Follow no-index
rel="prev" /view-more/
el="next" ?=p3

Option 2: /SEO-category/view-more/ 
Canonical: /SEO-category/

/SEO-category/view-more?=p2
rel="prev" /view-more/
el="next" ?=p3

Option 3: Other suggests?

Thanks!

[benesmartin]

Hey there,

I'd go for the Option 2, since rel=canonical passes the link juice in comparison to the noindex tag.

Also, make sure you set up the rel=canonical to all the pagination pages as well.

Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin