Pagination and View All Pages Question. We currently don't have a canonical tag pointing to View all as I don't believe it's a good user experience so how best we deal with this.

[PeteC12]

Hello All,

I have an eCommerce site and have implemented the use rel="prev"  and rel="next" for Page Pagination. However, we also have a View All which shows all the products but we currently don't  have a canonical tag pointing to this as I don't believe showing the user a page with shed loads of products on it is actually a good user experience so we havent done anything with this page.

I have a sample url from one of our categories which may help - http://goo.gl/9LPDOZ

This is obviously causing me duplication issues as well .

Also , the main category pages has historically been the pages which ranks better as opposed to Page 2, Page 3 etc etc.

I am wondering what I should do about the View All Page and has anyone else had this same issue and how did they deal with it. Do we just get rid of the View All even though Google says it prefers you to have it ?

I also want to concentrate my link juice on the main category pages as opposed being diluted between all my paginated pages ? - Does anyone have any tips on how to best do this and have you seen any ranking improvement from this ?

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

thanks

Peter

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Peter. It looks like the view all option is a parameter just as the page select ones are, i.e.

root: http://www.bestathire.co.uk/access
vs:    http://www.bestathire.co.uk/access/page:2
vs:    http://www.bestathire.co.uk/access/limit:9999   (view all)

In my opinion the page to set as canonical would be the first one: http://www.bestathire.co.uk/access if you decide to do anything as Google's first suggestion from their guide is, "Do nothing."    Still, setting the root as canonical could help with links though if you get users linking to pages further down the list, per their guide on that: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

"Consolidating link signals for the duplicate or similar content. It helps search engines to be able to consolidate the information they have for the individual URLs (such as links to them) on a single, preferred URL. This means that links from other sites to http://example.com/dresses/cocktail?gclid=ABCD get consolidated with links to http://www.example.com/dresses/green/greendress.html."

Cheers!

[PeteC12]

Hello Ryan,

Many thanks for taking the time to answer this. I will give that go .

Peter