> I think Google is right here. If you mark something as a sequence, it is reasonable to presume that the start of the sequence is the normal entry point, in th

> I think Google is right here. If you mark something as a sequence, it is reasonable to presume that the start of the sequence is the normal entry point, in this case the front page of your blog. I disagree. Just because the rel="prev"/rel="next" commands provide the ability to browse forward and backward through a series of documents doesn't mean that the only possible entry point is the beginning of the series. It doesn't mean that there even is a single well-defined first entry in the series. There's nothing to stop a series of links connecting into a closed loop, or to stop a single page from having multiple rel="prev" links because it appears in multiple series, or multiple rel="next" links because a previously linear series bifurcates and the user has multiple choices.