Has anyone implemented canonical tags including rel=next and rel=prev according to Google's best practices? I know there is a canonical URLs config option but without rel=next and rel=prev implemented alongside it seems this may do more harm than good. There is a work item here but it's been moved from release 3.8 to 3.9 to 'on hold / maybe won't'. That's a bit shocking with SEO being a pretty important.
I am aware of these posts but neither fully address the issue or contain details on how to implement correctly.
https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/38759/seo-improvement-rel-prevnext.aspx
https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/45856/pagination-seo-mistake.aspx
Would like to know if anyone has implemented correctly according to what Google wants to see.