Rel Canonical and Rel No Index, Follow

[Modi]

Hi, Cant implement rel next and prev as getting difficulty in coding - tried lot for same, but to no luck... Considering now rel=canonical and rel noindex,follow to 2 sections

• Deals and Discounts - We have been consistenly ranking on first position for over 1.5 yr, however recently slipped to position 4,5 on many keywords in this section

URL - http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_offers&view=list&Itemid=9

here, the page content for page 1 and 2 pertains to the current month and from page 3 to all other pages pertains to previous months. Is adding up rel canonical from page 3 to last page to page 1 - makes sense & also simultaneously add noindex, follow from page 3 to last page

• News & Reviews Section - Here, all news & article items are posted. Been the links of news items are primarily there. However, the pages are not duplicates, does adding noindex, follow makes sense here

URL - http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_latestnews&view=list&Itemid=10

Look forward for recommendations to implement the best - to gain SERP, avoid duplicate and white hat method.. Many thanks

[NakulGoyal]

What CMS are you using ? Looks like Joomla. Can you make your URLs Search Engine Friendly ? You have 3 querystrings in there.

As for adding rel=prev, next for Joomla, see this page:

http://www.jsnippets.net/snippets/php/add-link-relnextprev

I hope this helps.

[Modi]

Thanks, that code does not works, checked up already.. Its for pages created by joomla default pagination. Our component structure is not a core component of cms joomla

for sef urls - its already over 2yr+ now with site n backlinks created. have to live with native urls for this site now - also, the serp are not much impacted due to it.

[NakulGoyal]

Do those pages help the user ? Are they being used/browsed by your users ? Or are they just like an Archive. Are they limited to 10 pages ?

If I were you, I'd also look at other areas, both on-page and off-page and do a competitive analysis to see what is it that your competition is doing that you are not that is outranking you.