Pagination and duplicate content

**casionmark** · 30 August 2018, 2:59 am

Hi -

I have a question about pagination and possible duplicate content issue.

I have lists of slot games on my site that cover 4 or 5 pages. The way it has been built - the copy / content above and below the game lists stays the same, whilst when you move to Page 2 the games list in the middle changes. Also, the URL changes like this:

/slot-games/new-slot-games-2018/
/slot-games/new-slot-games-2018/page/2/

Technically, is this duplicate content? Although the games in the middle are changing, the copy around it doesn't. Can you do pagination without this set up - i.e. maintain the same URL?

Thanks,
Mark

**Garry Mosser** · 31 August 2018, 1:51 pm

Hi,
Yeah, technically it is duplicate content and you can experience problems with ranking that pages in the future. Right now you have a canonical pointing from pagination pages to category page, google respects that and do not index pagination. But that behaviour can change any moment and cause you problems. As a solution I would advise to simply generate <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow”> on pagination pages. Google will crawl and follow all the games, but do not index dublicate content.

Hope it helped.

**RichardV** · 1 September 2018, 9:12 am

use rel="canonical", pointing the href to your first page in the <head> section
<link rel="canonical" href="/slot-games/new-slot-games-2018/" />

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