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Hi Sam, Even with that random bombshell announcement from Google about rel=next/prev, I still wouldn't worry about this too much. It will be interesting to see if anyone else has a different opinion though! I don't suppose you have explored server logs to validate the claim that Google is being inefficient in its crawling? I don't personally see how having a page 2 indexed equates to this, but understand in general where you are coming from with this! Kind regards, Nick