Best Way to Use Canonical Tag & Meta Robots in Category Level Paginated Pages with feature of rel prev & rel next?

[shreyS]

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[GreenStone]

From what I can tell on first glance:

• I would avoid using meta "noindex" tag in conjunction with rel canonical in general. This might send conflicting information, and generally only using one or the other is recommended. So yes, removing the noindex tag sounds like a good idea.
• From what I can see, your main category pages are "view all" pages", meaning you can scroll down to see the results that are also stretched out over those paginated pages. In that case, I don't think it could hurt to rel canonical the paginated results to the view all category page.
• It certainly couldn't hurt to also implement the rel prev next tag, as these work well in conjunction with rel canonical tags, and are generally recommended for paginated results.

Hope that helps.

[shreyS]

Thanks for prompt reply!!

There are many pages where view all page is not there. In this situation what shall i do with paginated pages associated with category pages:

Shall i use second page to last page canonical set to 1st page with meta robots noindex, follow

Or

Shall i do canonical of second page to last page set to 1st page with meta robots index, follow

Or

Shall i give self canonical for every paginated page with meta robots index, follow [In this situation link equity of 1st page will be diluted or not?]

Or Any other case will be best suited.

P.S - My aim is to get best ranking for my first page of the series of paginated page.