Pagination for product listing, what to use? "canonical" or "rel-prev-next" or do nothing?

Posted by Jayapal Chandran on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Jayapal Chandran
Published on 2013-01-30T07:13:31Z Indexed on 2013/06/24 22:32 UTC
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I want to make sure my product listing is 10 products per page which are not in a series (link).

They have explained how to use canonical or rel prev for pagination when a long page has been divided into multiple page and the multiple pages becomes a series were as my condition is not that. They are unique listing which are not related to each listing... All the listing links leads to a product profile page.

So lets say my site is all about cars and I have a Used Audi page with 1000 Audi's for sale. There are 10 used audi cars on each page so there's 100 pages in the series. If I start to utilise Rel="prev" and rel="next" should I set page 2 onwards as index,follow or noindex,follow? The content on Page 2 all the way to 100 only changes ever so slightly as different cars will be for sale on different pages but from a "Panda" point of view the pages are incredibly similar as they'd hold the same meta data as page 1 in the series along with duplicate reviews & news etc.

I want Page 1 in the series as the Main page for Google to send users too and I don't see the point in Google indexing page 2 > 100. What's everyone's view on this?

Lastly with the rel="canonical" tag should page 2 to 100 all point back to page 1 in the series or the individual page itself? E.G: /used-audi/page-3/.

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