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Pagination Tag Generator
Produce the canonical, rel prev and next, and self-referencing tags for a paginated series, matching what search engines now expect.
🔒 This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to a server.
SEO & Web
Pagination Tag Generator
Frontend preview — no upload or external service.
Head markup
Page 3 of 9: canonical to /blog?page=3, rel="prev" to page 2, rel="next" to page 4 — each page self-canonical, none pointing at page 1.
How the Pagination Tag Generator works
- Enter the series URL pattern and which page you are generating for.
- Choose a canonical strategy — self-referencing is right for nearly every paginated list.
- Paste the tags into that page's head and confirm each page canonicalises to itself, not to page 1.
FAQ
Do rel prev and next still matter?
Google stopped using them as an indexing signal, but other crawlers and assistive technology still read them, and they cost nothing. Treat them as useful markup rather than an SEO lever.
Should page 2 canonicalise to page 1?
No. That tells search engines page 2's content does not exist independently, and its items drop out of the index. Each page should canonicalise to itself.
What about a view-all page?
If one exists and loads acceptably fast, canonicalising the paginated pages to it is legitimate. If it is slow or enormous, keep self-referencing canonicals.
How we compare
| Feature | Online Tool Store | An SEO suite | Hand-written markup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-referencing canonicals | ✓ | Manual | Varies |
| Warns about canonical-to-page-1 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| No plugin required | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Copy-ready head markup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Pagination Tag Generator defaults to self-referencing canonicals because the common alternative quietly removes most of a series from the index.