Pagination and Canonicals

1. Paginated paged. What should I do with paginated pages for my blog directory, blog categories, and blog tags? Block within robot.txt, meta robot text, or do nothing? Pagination for this directory makes hundreds of pages and I'm a little bit confused about what to do.
2. Should I use self-referring canonicals for those paginated pages or canonicals referred to root pages?

SirLouen said:

Depending on how pagination works URL-wise
1. If you find something like this: example.com/?p=2, then as far as you set canonical for the root page, you will be fine
2. But if pagination is something like example.com/2, then you should set canonical for each single url. Although, most of the times pages do worse than good. Many people have suggested straight noindexing them or going straight canonical for root also, like in the first example. Personally I could not care less about this, unless we are talking about hundreds of thousands. At worst you could cannibalize a little bit with some articles and long tail keywords. Nothing to be too worried about.

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1. example.com/blog/categoty - root
2. example.com/blog/categoty/page/2 - child

1. example.com/blog/categoty/tag - root
2. example.com/blog/categoty/tag/page/2

rosiemc said:

Also having issues with canonicals - errors showing. Any guidance on how to fix?

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