How should one approach pagination on website

[thetelescope]

This is my first post here so forgive me if I made any mistake while posting it.

Say I have one category called News on my website, it gets frequently updated with new posts everyday. So the thing is one article that is sitting on first page of the category, will eventually move down to 2nd page, and then 3rd and then 4th and so on. Now bots will see this article on first page, then index this on second page also and then on third also and so on and this goes on for rest of the articles as well.

Will this raise a duplicate flag for the website. How should one approach this problem. I would really not want to use noindex tag here as I do want such pages to get indexed but without getting the duplicate content issue.

[TimHolmes]

Hi TheTelescope,

Your best bet is to mark up your category/news pages with rel next and previous pagination. this will indicate to Google that your pages are part of a series and help to avoid duplicate content.

On /news page 1 - only use the rel next link.
On /news page 2 - use both rel next and previous
On /news last page only use rel previous to indicate end of series

The links will look something like below

You can find more info direct from Google below here

Hope this helps

Tim