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Re: Questions about pagination, rel="next" and rel="prev", or view-all in search results?

poooook Sep 15, 2011 7:29 AM
Posted in group: Webmaster Central

Categories: Crawling, indexing & ranking :

@anthonydnelson you set it in the head, not on the a tag.. so you would put prev with a link to page 2 and a next with a link to page 4 to indicate it is part of a series.

I wonder if more than one next is supported though? I guess this is not technically paginated content, but say you had a series of pages and users could pick a different step and it branches to a different page depending on what they picked, could you do:

page1
- has relnext - page2 AND
- has relnext - page3

page2
- has relprev - page1
- has relnext - page4

page3
- has relprev - page1
- has relnext - page5

Would that be possible or is this only explicitly a one-to-one mapping as it were?

Thanks,

John