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How about using parameter handling using Google Webmaster tools to ignore ?page=1, ?order=updated_at+DESC and so on. Does that work instead of including canonical tags on all such pages?

Hi mozzers,

I would like to know the best way to handle query parameters.

Say my site is example.com. Here are two scenarios.

Scenario #1: Duplicate content

example.com/category?page=1
example.com/category?order=updated_at+DESC
example.com/category
example.com/category?page=1&sr=blog-header

All have the same content.

Scenario #2: Pagination

example.com/category?page=1
example.com/category?page=2 and so on.

What is the best way to solve both?

Do I need to use Rel=next and Rel=prev or is it better to use Google Webmaster tools parameter handling? Right now I am concerned about Google traffic only.

For solving the duplicate content issue, do we need to use canonical tags on each such URL's?

I am not using WordPress. My site is built on Ruby on Rails platform.

Thanks!

Example.com is built using one technology and example.com/blog/ is built on WordPress. They are on the same top level domain only

I would like to set up one campaign for my main site example.com and another campaign for example.com/blog. Is it possible? I don't want crawling to overlap for these two separate campaigns.