Questions tagged [pagination]
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How rel="next" and rel="prev" helps in SEO if used for pagination?
How rel="next" and rel="prev" helps in SEO, if used for pagination?
Is it really required ?
i.e. imagine you're on page 2:
<link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/article-part1.html">
&...
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What is the consensus on handling pagination in 2019 on big result sets?
According to my research, old methods of consolidating paginated URLs into one are not recommended anymore.
Old ways:
Using rel=prev/next, but:
"Rel=prev/next is not an indexing signal anymore" (...
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Am I doing the SEO for pagination correctly?
On October 13th, I changed my domain from www.7tutorials.com to www.digitalcitizen.life. I made 301 redirects, kept the content, aliases, meta data, etc. The idea is that the new site is the old site ...
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'canonical' link type on paginated pages?
I noticed that Stack Overflow uses a rel=canonical attribute on page 2+ of answers. For example, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470651/creating-a-memory-leak-with-java?page=2&tab=votes#...
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Should paginated content have unique meta tags?
I have a category page that leads to an additional 100 pages. For example:
www.example.com/category <- this is my category page
www.example.com/category-2.html <- this is paginated content
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“Invented” URL parameters
This is a question on the best action to take when Google is indexing pages that don't really exist.
I have a pretty simple pagination system on a set of news pages where the file is referenced news....
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Is pagination better than next/preview 20 results?
From a SEO perspective. Is it better to show a classic pagination
Than "just" previous/next buttons
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rel="next" in anchor tag is not working
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 ...
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Lazy loading or pagination for wordpress comments
i have many Wordpress posts with over 200 comments, so i need to improve the speed of these posts.
In particolar, i want to improve PageSpeed Insights score, because now it reports "Avoid an ...
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Should I add category page number to breadcrumbs on product page
I am currently working on a website which has paginated content. It is a list of products. There are many categories, but for simplicity, let's assume that I have just one category with many pages.
I ...
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SEO tips on changing blog pagination
Three years ago we launched a self-made blog area on our e-commerce website. Call it an experimental feature, if you know what I mean.
We had, and still have, a very minimalistic URL schema:
/blog/...
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Any good reason to noindex /page/2/ in archives?
In the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast, there is an option that could noindex the subpages of archives. From example, it would noindex the following:
http://example.com/page/2/
http://example.com/page/...
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Does rel="next" have to be in the HEAD?
I'm trying to improve SEO on a platform I'm working with, and was advised to add rel="next" and rel="prev" links to my pages to make it clearer to google which URLS are paginated.
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Should paginated sites be included in sitemap?
My website is ad listing for boats, boats' engines, boat rentals, etc (www.mynautics.com).
There are ads listed on multiple pages. I have finished (not jet seen on link above) pagination:
added prev
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Should rel=canonical point to page one of a set and still have rel=prev/next on the page as well?
I've got a page which displays search results and I've added rel=prev and rel=next meta tags to the page to cover the paging. However, someone is saying I should also add a rel=canonical tag to the ...
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Using rel = prev/next/canonical with the pagination of frequently updated content
I am confused about what would be the proper markup for a paginated series, even after reading quite a lot of advice, from google included.
The common wisdom seems to be this:
Use rel="next" to ...
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Meta descriptions for paginated single posts
I'm using the popular Wordpress SEO by Yoast plugin. I can use a wildcard (%%page%%) for the title of paginated posts, so that the title becomes:
1st post page: The Title
2nd post page: The Title - ...
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Should I use "Disallow", "NoFollow", or "NoIndex" for paginated listing pages?
I own a web site which has mainly two types of pages:
Content pages: they are pretty much static, and link to the previous and next content page (chronologically). The structure is that of a double ...
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Article over multiple pages with "see whole article" link
A trend often found on popular websites is to have an article spread over multiple pages, along with a "read whole article" link to see all the sections in a single page.
Now, I was wondering, what ...
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Will google get upset if I have incomplete pagination links?
For technical reasons (this would be really hard to do given the software that I'm using), I am only able to generate rel=prev links and not rel=next links (those links tell google what page they are ...
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What is the correct order of previous - next buttons in paginated results?
We are developing an XML DITA content system that allows users to view their search results in a paginated form and navigate through these results backwards and forwards, page by page and we have ...
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How to use NOINDEX,FOLLOW with paginated results except index page
I am running a classified website. At the moment I am using lazy loading with jquery to load content while scrolling.
I got to know that using jquery loading is not good for search-engine
bots ...
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How to tell Google to pick the first page instead of 2nd or 3rd page of the listing?
I have a classified website and it has a great traffic.
When I google for a specific term that is related to my site I saw that my site appears in search results
but google is picking the 5th page of ...
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Is it legitimate for rel prev / next links to indicate a circular sequence of pages?
Before anything else, yes, Google no longer takes note of rel prev / next and has not done so (officially) for nearly a year. Google officially deprecated rel prev / next as a crawl / indexing factor ...
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How many web pages should I create for an online book for SEO and UI?
I'm currently designing an online book reader.
I have two options:
Every page of the book has its own webpage. This would mean millions of webpages. Upsides: it saves a lot of bandwidth as an ...
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Canonical URLs in sortable paginated lists
How should one use rel="canonical" in sortable paginated lists?
An unsorted list of products is not the same as the same list sorted, nor are lists sorted in different ways equivalent. For example, ...
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Should out-of-range pagination query produce a 404?
The answer seems like a plain-as-day yes, but I'd rather have a more certain idea.
Should an out-of-range pagination query, e.g. 11 of 10, produce a 404?
I'm working on a React.js application where ...
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Only rel="prev" attribute
At my site I can set only <link rel='prev' /> without next part. Will robots index pages in appropriate way (show first page instead of random page from list) with only prev attr?
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Can Googlebot see pagination meta tags created with JavaScript?
I would like to render meta pagination links (<link rel="prev"../> <link rel="next"../>) with JavaScript.
As Google Search Console does not show rendered meta data is there any other way ...
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Hidden "< prev" and "next >" pagination links on first and last page respectively
I'm using the Yii Framework, with Bootstrap 3, and have noticed the default pagination behavior on the first and last pages is a little strange.
On page 2 of 3 the links look like:
< Prev | 1 | 2 ...
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SEO best practice when using listing with multiple pages
I have a website with multiple product categories. Those categories can be sorted (Price, rating, etc.) showing a maximum of X number of products per pages.
From the SEO point-of-view, what is the ...
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Query string parameter (?) after fragment identifier (#)
My dev is rewriting the filters plugin for my eCommerce site as our current plugin slows pageload, and part of this is to rewrite pagination and he has asked me how the query strings should be handled....
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Google search console reports indexing my pages with pagination parameters even though they redirect
I recently saw in search console that Google is indexing some of my WordPress posts with pagination. For example example.com/post/page/2. The coverage report says "indexed but not submitted." It ...
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How can I use pagination in Woocommerce with a list of known product IDs? [closed]
when I click to a product tag in woocommerce (example: cats), it goes to the landing page (mysite.com/product-tag/cats/) which uses template (product-archieve.php), and that template creates a ...
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Search engine ranking of paginated categories, subcategories and tag pages
Suppose we have an E-commerce domain with the following structure:
domain/items - contains all items.
domain/items/category - contains a narrower spectrum of results than above.
domain/items/category/...
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Should canonical links for pagination include the page number, or are they not needed at all when using rel=next and rel=prev?
I have set pagination on index page of my website so URLs are like https://www.example.com and https://www.example.com?page=2 and https://www.example.com?page=3 so on.
I am little confused how should ...
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Does an infinite-scroll page on its own url and a paginated page on another url with the same content hurt SEO?
My index page is an infinite scrollable page.
I also have a paginated page on another url say /posts with the same content; like how SO's index page and /questions page have the same content.
Will ...
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Technical SEO: tell google that pieces of blog are connected
I have a few pages of a blog series, for example;
/games/finding-games/
/console/installing-games/
/play/starting-a-game/
All these pages are on different URLs but are a part of one sequential ...
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How to remove paginated link from the Google search results?
When do i search query on Google like this:
site:example.com (WordPress blog)
It gives the paginated URLs also in the SERPs like this:
https://www.example.com/page/2/
https://www.example.com/page/3/...
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Can rel="prev" and rel="next" attributes be placed on elements other than <link>?
Is this the absolute ONLY correct way to indicate a paginated series of pages to search engines?
<head>
<link href="www.example.co.uk/news/?page=8" rel="prev">
<link href="www....
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Google search shows outdated results for a high-frequency changing paginated website
I have a paginated website that publishes links to news articles from different news sources in a specific niche every hour in a most-recent-first fashion. The website is paginated so www.example.com?...
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Pagination meta tag rel next, vs link attribute?
I am implementing a product listing. Google recommends having rel next and prev meta tags.
Would rel next and prev attributes on appropriate anchor tags, achieve the same result? Or is that ...
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Rel Canonical for multiple versions of pagination for desktop and mobile
My website is primarily a photo gallery presentation site where the photo thumbnails (that link to the photos) are divided into pages. To maintain compatibility for all users, I give them the option ...
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do we have to add/remove a trailing slash for pagination page numbers in the url. how seo considers that?
My module is paginated. I want to either add a trailing slash or remove a trailing slash.
For now i am thinking of adding a trailing slashes to all URLS.
What will be the effect on adding a trailing ...
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pagination and duplicate content with one paragraph in each page with totally different listing
I have a module in my site which can be accessed like sitename.com/module/
This module has pagination.
In the first page i have two paragraphs which describe about the site. This will appear in all ...
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How to handle additional content on paginated pages?
we have category pages with a few hundred products per category.
The category pages are properly paginated according to Googles guidelines for pagination.
One page shows 16 products. In addition to ...
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Redirect in .htaccess when page numbers are both in a query parameter and in the path
My blog is creating duplicate pagination, and Google understands this as duplicate content.
How to 301 redirect pagination as in the following examples?
https://example.com/page/33?page=34
to: https:/...
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Should I take any action over "Crawled - currently not indexed" or let it go?
More of these pages are appearing on the "crawled currently not indexed" section of the Google Search Console coverage report. I believe this is somewhat related to pagination and I should block it.
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Pagination and crawl depths
On a website with ~40 blogs, we have recently switched on pagination meanings blogs are on page 1-8.
With google crawl being less likely to crawl over 3 clicks deep, will pages not immediately linked ...
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Can we have Google crawl but ignore our paginated category pages and prefer our individual post pages in the index?
We have a site with a massive content back-end (50.000+) with, lets say, posts. We want to make these posts available to users, so people searching for the content on Google will find one of these ...