Is a separate title tags and description reqquired
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is it a separate title tags and description for all pagination pages.
We have common title tag and meta desciption of all pagination pages
should we need to modify the same
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Hello Gagan, please note my suggestion is to use "noindex, follow", not "noindex, nofollow".
Your links will still be followed, it's just that your paginated pages will not be indexed which should eliminate problems with duplicate content.
You might even be more interested in using rel="next" and rel="prev" as described here.
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Hi George,
Its an Automobiles site
making no follow especially for links as mentioned above for Daniel reply will take away the worth of news section especially
pl suggest
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Hello Daniel,
We have 3 sections -
a) Used Cars
b) Deals & Offers
c) News & Reviews
been the sections have listings like
- ne old cars been added will create further listing pages
http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_usedcar&view=category&Itemid=3
- Deals & Offers
again we update discounts for the month and old discounts comes as pagination links
http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_offers&view=list&Itemid=9
- News & Reviews
the list is also sorted with latest news coming first and creating pages for old news
http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_latestnews&view=list&Itemid=10
pl suggest should we create separate meta tags for all pages
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Hi Gagan,
I generally view pagination being used when you have a large number of products that match a category, tag, or other identifying attribute. I'm not sure what others have done, but an approach I would use if I do want the category page indexed is as follows:
- Make the first page your category landing page "index, follow" (e.g. results 1-10)
- Make all secondary pages "noindex, follow" (e.g. items 11-20; 21-30; etc...)
This will cause your primary category landing page (the first 10 results) to be indexed with your desired page title and description. Because it is a landing page for this "category", I would also include a summary about the category and other useful information for users.
Your other pagination pages will continue to have the same title and description, but they will not be indexed. This will eliminate the duplicate content issue.
Hopefully others will sound off with what has worked for them too.
Hope this helps!
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The question is unclear. What is a "pagination page?" Is this different from a page?
It's certainly best practice for all pages to have unique title tags to avoid duplicate content issues.
Unique descriptions for each page are also desirable, as they can increase click through rates, even though they are not read by search engines. Think of descriptions as promotional copy.
If you have the same page title and page description on each and very page of your site, you have a big problem that needs to be fixed.
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