URL: /rules/crawl/pagination

---
title: "Pagination"
description: "Checks that paginated pages have proper canonicals"
---

Checks that paginated pages have proper canonicals

| | |
|---|---|
| **Rule ID** | `crawl/pagination` |
| **Category** | [Crawlability](/rules/crawl) |
| **Scope** | Per-page |
| **Severity** | info |
| **Weight** | 4/10 |

## Solution

Paginated pages should NOT all canonicalize to page 1. Each page should have a self-referencing canonical. Use rel='next' and rel='prev' links to indicate pagination sequence (though Google no longer uses these for indexing, they help users). Consider view-all pages or infinite scroll as alternatives. Ensure each paginated page has unique, valuable content.

## Enable / Disable

### Disable this rule

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["crawl/pagination"]
```

### Disable all Crawlability rules

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["crawl/*"]
```

### Enable only this rule

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
enable = ["crawl/pagination"]
disable = ["*"]
```