Query for paginated URLs - Shopify

[williamhuynh]

Hi there,

/collections/living-room-furniture?page=2
/collections/living-room-furniture?page=3
/collections/living-room-furniture?page=4

Is that ok to make all the above paginated URLs canonicalised with their main category /collections/living-room-furniture

Also, does it needs to be noindex, follow as well?

Please advice, thank you!

[Mat_C]

I mostly agree with Robin here.

Also, be sure NOT to mix 'noindex' and canonical tags. Google will (in most cases) end up picking rel=canonical over noindex when you use both of these. So it is very possible that even when using 'noindex', your pages will appear in search results.

The approach of canonicalising all your paginated pages to the first one, is not good practice. We all just found out that Google hasn't been using rel=next/prev for a couple of years now, but most of the pagination was indexed in a correct way.

So doing nothing is maybe not that bad of an option. If you see things going wrong, you can further evaluate and test other possibilities.

[R0bin_L0rd]

I have a slightly different perspective here, based on one core assumption so feel free to tell me if this is off the mark - **I am assuming you want the products you are linking to on deeper paginated pages to still be found by Google so that they can rank. **

Google has said that noindexed urls are, over time, treated as noindex nofollow. Likewise, if all of the deeper paginated pages are canonicalised to the first page Google may not pass authority down to each of them. Pagination is common across the web, unless you are seeing massive conflict problems (which would be unusual) I would not robots block them, noindex them, or canonicalise them. I'd just leave them as they are and trust Google to figure it out until you have evidence that it is  causing problems on your site in specific.

Hope that helps!

[jasongmcmahon]

I'd say no, they're dynamic URLs & you plan to add a  tag

[williamhuynh]

Sure, I'll make them noindex, but Is that ok to make all the above paginated URLs canonicalised with their main category /collections/living-room-furniture too?

[jasongmcmahon]

My preference is to treat these types of pages as dynamic URLs & block them in the robots.txt

Disallow: /?
Disallow: /=

But, since you can't do this in Shopify, then you need to manually add the code in to the pagination pages (somehow).

I got the HTML code from
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/seo/hide-a-page-from-search-engines