I have 100's of duplicate meta description issue in google webmaster tool because of the pagination. Pagination pages are showing as  duplicate in tool. So I added the `rel="next"` and `rel="prev"` to the pagination link anchor tags. But it seems like not working.


I red the [google office webmaster blog post][1]. That never mentioned to add anchor tag to the rel attributes. So should only adding rel attribute with link work or it will work with anchor tag as well. 

example :-
   

     <link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2" />


I red few unofficial blogs that mentioned the it will work with anchor. So please can anyone tell what I am doing here wrong! 
 


  [1]: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html