Duplicate content issues with products page 1,2,3 and so on

[Essentia]

Hi, we have this products page, for example of a landing page:
http://www.redwrappings.com.au/australian-made/gift-ideas

and then we have the link to page 2,3,4 and so on:
http://www.redwrappings.com.au/products.php?c=australian-made&p=2
http://www.redwrappings.com.au/products.php?c=australian-made&p=3

In SEOmoz, they are recognized as duplicate page contents.
What would be the best way to solve this problem?

One easy way i can think of is to nominate the first landing page to be the 'master' page (http://www.redwrappings.com.au/australian-made/gift-ideas), and add canonical meta links on page 2,3 and so on.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

[Alex-Harford]

They are duplicate content, other than the products. From page 2 onwards, remove all of that content you have below the product results.

Also from page 2 onwards, change the title tags so you have "Page 2", "Page 3" etc. at the beginning - you want the SEO value for the headers here going to your main landing page - the first one. The meta description is the same on each page too, so add the page numbers to that, or remove it altogether for any page other than the main one.

http://www.redwrappings.com.au/products.php?c=australian-made&p=1 and http://www.redwrappings.com.au/australian-made/gift-ideas are showing as the same page, so add a rel=canonical for the latter address on page 1 and/or 301 redirect the former to the latter.

On another note, your meta description for page 1 is WAY TOO long. Get it below 150 characters. There's no point stuffing it with keywords. The aim of that is to get people to click through when they see your site on SERPs.

And on another 'nother note, I'd say this post does have a specific answer, rather than being an ongoing discussion.

[Alex-Harford]

This is worth a read:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience

[Essentia]

Hi Alex,

Great stuff. Thanks for that