Imagine there is a large scale website and we are going to release pagination on category listing pages.
in order to optimize crawl budget and link equity among paginated pages, what is the best strategy?
Noindexing paginated pages, canonicalizing paginated pages to the first page, etc. ?
I must partly disagree with Antonio's comment above. In fact, there are at least one risks in using the "noindex" for paginated lists:
the "noindex" means that you are eliminating the page from the index of Google, which means that it will start not to consider it for crawling hence will crawl less and less, which means that less and less will follow the items listed in the noindex pages.