Product page reviews issues

[pikka]

Hi,

We've implemented pagination on the reviews with rel=next/prev, but have seen no improvements since this. An example page with reviews is here. Can you see any issues on this that would be causing the problem? Thanks!

[Everett]

Hello Pikka,

The paginated pages each have a self-referencing rel canonical tag and content that is duplicate to the main page. I think this could be your problem.

Example:
http://www.bookatable.com/uk/101917/oxo-tower
Rel canonical = http://www.bookatable.com/uk/101917/oxo-tower

http://www.bookatable.com/uk/101917/oxo-tower?reviewPage=4 (same content as above)
Rel canonical = http://www.bookatable.com/uk/101917/oxo-tower?reviewPage=4

We could make this as complicated as can be, but I'd be willing to bet money that if you simply made the rel canonical tag for the paginated pages the same as the canonical page (e.g. http://www.bookatable.com/uk/101917/oxo-tower) you would see some lift in rankings and traffic.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!