Tricky Duplicate Content Issue

[znotes]

Hi MOZ community,

I'm hoping you guys can help me with this.

Recently our site switched our landing pages to include a 180 item and 60 item version of each category page. They are creating duplicate content problems with the two examples below showing up as the two duplicates of the original page.

http://www.uncommongoods.com/fun/wine-dine/beer-gifts?view=all&n=180&p=1

http://www.uncommongoods.com/fun/wine-dine/beer-gifts?view=all&n=60&p=1

The original page is

http://www.uncommongoods.com/fun/wine-dine/beer-gifts

I was just going to do a rel=canonical for these two 180 item and 60 item pages to the original landing page but then I remembered that some of these landing pages have page 1, page 2, page 3 ect. I told our tech department to use rel=next and rel=prev for those pages. Is there anything else I need to be aware of when I apply the canonical tag for the two duplicate versions if they also have page 2 and page 3 with rel=next and rel=prev?

Thanks

[LoganRay]

Hi,

Your 'page 1' URLs should canonicalize to the root level of that page. And your rel=prev tag for page 2 should point to the root, but beyond that, it's standard implementation. Beyond that, the pagination markup for rel=prev/next is pretty simple.