Thursday, September 15, 2011
Much like rel="canonical"
acts a strong hint for duplicate content, you can now use the HTML link elements
rel="next" and rel="prev"
to indicate the relationship between component URLs in a paginated series. Throughout the web, a
paginated series of content may take many shapes—it can be an article divided into several
component pages, or a product category with items spread across several pages, or a forum thread
divided into a sequence of URLs. Now, if you choose to include rel="next" and
rel="prev" markup on the component pages within a series, you're giving Google a
strong hint that you'd like us to:
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Consolidate indexing properties, such as links, from the component pages/URLs to the series as a
whole (that is, links should not remain dispersed between
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