Ecommerce SEO: Title Tags for pagination
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Here's a specific question about title tags for ecommerce website...
We've got lists of products (category list pages) that stretch for many pages... is there any benefit to added a something to make the title tag unique.
For example:
Page 1: <title></span><span class="html-tag" data-mce-mark="1">Category List Page Example</span><span class="html-tag" data-mce-mark="1"></title>
Page 2: <title></span><span class="html-tag" data-mce-mark="1">Category List Page Example - Page 2</span><span class="html-tag" data-mce-mark="1"></title>
Page 3: <title></span><span class="html-tag" data-mce-mark="1">Category List Page Example - Page 3</span><span class="html-tag" data-mce-mark="1"></title>
FWIW, we've got the pagination and canonicalization nailed down tight. Moz crawl actual brought a dupe content issue based on title tags.
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As long as rel prev/next is correct, and each page canonicals to itself (see second to last bullet on this page), then I think those title tag formats look good. Aside from getting rid of the Moz errors, it sends a stronger pagination signal to Google, and may be useful to the user.
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If you are using pagination and have rel="prev" and rel="next" on number links then I would ignore the alert from Moz crawl. You don't want to make these into unique pages.
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