Pagination dilemma
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We are about to migrate an ecommerce site to a whole different platform and we are facing a pagination dilemma.
The new platform has a view all page for each category where all the individual pages point with a rel canonical to the view all page. What would be best to to as for the redirect. should we do the 301 redirect to the view all page ? Considering that the view all page takes quite a time to load, wouldn’t it be good to drop the view all an implement the rel-next, rel-prev and point the 301 redirect to the first page.
If we do the view all page, wouldn't be a problem if all the natural backlinks that we'll get will not be for the page view all page, but for the page1, page2 etc?
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