Thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions and clarifying the use of ‘No Index, Follow’ tag on all paginated pages.

I thought maybe this was the cause for some of the low indexing numbers I was seeing. Probably need to work more on deep linking.

I read somewhere that the ‘noindex, follow’ paginated page will still pass link juice/page rank to links on the page (our product pages). If this is true, then I will think that external links to the paginated pages won’t be a total waste in SEO value as it will pass the value to the product pages and perhaps help in getting those index and rank higher.

Again, thanks for the help. Your company offers some great marketing services. I bookmarked your site in case I need these services in the future.

Best to you and your company.

Dan

I state in the post that implementing the ‘No Index, Follow’ tag on all paginated pages will avoid duplicated content, however it will mean that all paginated pages will not be indexed. I can see where confusion may have come about due to my wording regarding product pages.

Are you referring to the site http://www.dcgstores.com?

If so, as it stands search engines will index /lounge-chairs.html however they will not index /lounge-chairs.html?pi=2, but they will go on and index /avenue-six-madison-chair.html for example.

Do bear in mind however that should anyone link to a paginated page, this will be a wasted link in terms of SEO value; however your current setup seems fine to me.

Good luck!

Paul

I’m researching the effects of pagination on ecommerce sites. In regards to Noindex, Follow your pagination pages, you stated: “Whilst this tactic is available for paginated article content, it should be avoided on ecommerce sites as none of the products on the paginated pages will be indexed.”
Can you clarify this?

I have done this for category type pages on ecommerce sites, and thought the search engine will not index the category page but WILL crawl to the product pages and index them through the use of the Follow meta tag.

Please let me know as if this is not the case, we have a big problem. This will ruin the indexing of the product pages. Thank you very much and taking the time to outline this topic.