Hello All,
I am trying to optimise my own ecommerce website and I have some questions regarding pagination, canonical tags and indexing of pages.
Below is what I have added to my category pages :
Category Page URL: http://example.com/flowers
<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/flowers" />
<link rel="next" href="http://example.com/flowers?page=2" />
Pagination Category 2 Page URL : http://example.com/flowers?page=2
<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/flowers?page=2" />
<link rel="prev" href="http://example.com/flowers"/>
<link rel="next" href="http://example.com/flowers?page=3" />
Below are the Questions :
1- Does this canonical tag <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/flowers?page=2" /> in the coding of this URL : http://example.com/flowers?page=2 create any problem , should I leave it as it is or change it to <link rel="canonical" href="http://example/flowers"/>
2- When I search in google using the site:http://example.com/flowers it shows me all the pagination pages as well :
http://example.com/flowers?page=2
http://example.com/flowers?page=3
http://example.com/flowers?page=4
3- Does this effect my rankings in search results ?
Any help would be appreciated .
Thanks.
[edited by: aakk9999 at 1:47 pm (utc) on Jan 25, 2014]
[edit reason] Please use example.com to avoid autolinking [/edit]
