Index page content identical to page 1 of a gallery-type website
- by WordPress Developer
I have a gallery type website, e.g. a site that lists blog posts or pictures in a paginated manner.
However, I have 2 pages that have identical content:
example.com/index.html
example.com/page/1
Page 2, 3 and so on have different content naturally.
However, for SEO purposes, what is the best way of telling Google that page 1 is identical to index.html?
Should I 302 redirect index.html to /page/1 so index.html is non-existent, so to say or should I put a canonical tag in /page/1 (but not on /page/2) that points to index.html?