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http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html 3. While it’s fine to set rel=”canonical” from a component URL to a single view-all page, setting the canonical to the first page of a parameter-less sequence is considered improper usage. We make no promises to honor this implementation of rel=”canonical.”