Best usage of rel canonical in case of pagination for content list ?

[kr0hmy]

I've looked at most of the question in the Q&A who speak about pagination but didn't find a clear answer to my concern.

So here is my question :

On the website i work for, we have list of recipes with this info for each recipe : picture, title, type, difficulty, time and author.

10 recipes per pages and X pages for each list.

Would you use link rel canonical on page X with first page as value ? (i've seen this answer in one question here)
Or canonicalize to page X keeping each page of the list in the index ?
Would the content be seen as duplicate if we don't use rel canonical and just add page X in the title? Or would it be unique enough with all the infos?

Thanks for your help on this !

[AlanBleiweiss]

If you have different recipe's on every page in the pagination, it's not a duplicate content issue.  So unless there's a valid reason to NOT allow them all, without canonicalization, I recommend to clients that they don't use the canonical - let them all be indexed.  As long as you include "page X" in the Title, Description, URL, and h1 of the page.

The alternate reasoning I usually see is you don't want to dilute the link value that first page gets.  Personally I prefer to show search engines "look - ALL of these pages are about this topic".

[kr0hmy]

Ok this is clear now ! Thanks for your help ! I was a bit lost on this issue...

So no canonical it will be !