You’re the first person I have come across who has thought that a paginated result in the SERP makes for a good landing page. Typically you want people to land on the page that most closely matches their search query (the actual blog post in most cases). If you’re targeting very competitive keywords and you can’t get the actual blog post to rank high enough,then the next best landing page would be the category page and then the homepage. Anyway, here is google’s advice on handling pagination for SEO. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

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http://yoast.com/rel-next-prev-paginated-archives/