diff --git a/site/_docs/pagination.md b/site/_docs/pagination.md
index c2662f04..9352827e 100644
--- a/site/_docs/pagination.md
+++ b/site/_docs/pagination.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ page in the generated site.
 You may also specify the destination of the pagination pages:
 
 {% highlight yaml %}
-paginate_path: "blog/page:num/"
+paginate_path: "/blog/page:num/"
 {% endhighlight %}
 
 This will read in `blog/index.html`, send it each pagination page in Liquid as `paginator`