Paginated URLs are getting Indexed

[vivekrathore]

Hi,

For ex: - My site is www.abc.com and Its paginated URLs for www.abc.com/jobs-in-delhi are in the format of : www.abc.com/jobs-in-delhi-1, www.abc.com/jobs-in-delhi-2 and vice versa also i have used pagination tags rel=next and rel=prev.

My concern is all the paginated URLs are getting indexed so is their any disadvantage if these URLs are getting indexed as somewhere i have read that link juice may get distributed in case of pagination. isn't it good to use Noindex, Follow so that we can make the Google to understand that paginated page are not so much important and that should not be ranked.

[TomRayner]

Hi there

If you can add "noindex,follow" to those pages, then yes that would be an ideal solution.  I'd double check your pagination code just to make sure it's done properly, but I have seen pages with paginations/different canonicals be indexed before alongside the original in the past (canonical code is a suggestion, not an instruction like a robots command).

One thing I'd recommend doing is do a search for your paginated URLs with the "info:" search parameter, eg: info:http://www.abc.com/jobs-in-delhi-1

If the search result is your original, main page, eg: www.abc.com/jobs-in-delhi - then I see that as a good sign that Google is following your pagination code and so while they might be in the index, they're treated as pagination versions of your main page and so you will avoid anything like duplicate content etc.

But, to be absolutely sure, I think adding "noindex,follow" is a good idea.

Hope this helps.