Google SEO
Best practices — Google Search Central
How do you handle pagination without duplication?
Each paginated page needs unique content, its own URL and a self-referencing canonical rather than a canonical to page one. Google stopped using rel=next/prev in 2019; clear pagination remains useful for navigation.
Further analysis
Use this entry as an audit checkpoint. The cited source establishes the context; the direct answer identifies what to check before choosing an action.
In SFT, this topic relates to Structure. Check whether the signal is visible on the page, connected to the rest of the website and supported by understandable evidence.
Related search terms include pagination SEO, rel next prev. Use them to describe the issue in a brief, audit or answer page.
Applying SFT
Structure turns a rule into readable architecture: headings, URLs, structured data, visible content and clear hierarchy.