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You can combine them, but not in the way you are actually doing. If I take your example: page: www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/?p=2 => with this set-up you are basically telling Google 2 different things: The canonical indicates that http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/?p=2 is in fact a duplicate of http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/ so Google should index http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/ instead. With the rel next/previous you tell Google that http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/ - http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/?p=2 & http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/?p=3 should be considered as one page rather than 3 pages. As these messages are in conflict this set-up is not going to work. If you want to use both - the canonical can only be used to strip additional info from the url like sort order, number of items on page, etc. Check the link Dimitri gave for an example from Google. An example from your site: http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/?dir=desc&limit=24&order=price&p=2 would have this configuration: (please not that the first url is http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/ & not http://www.rococlothing.co.uk/boys/boys-suits/?p=1 ) Hope this clarifies Dirk