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:
Niko Jojo
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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" (Google WebmasterBlog)
Using noindex,follow on…
rapstacke
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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 with a new identity, new design and new features.…
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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#tab-top
Notice they have a rel=canonical attribute…
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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/2016/04/27/todays-blog-post/ → a post
/blog/ → the…
Fabio B.
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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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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
My question is, do I need unique meta tags for each and…
Dominic Reigns
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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/3/
http://example.com/page/4/
… and so on. Is…
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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 pagination link anchor tags. But it seems like…
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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 excessive DOM size", caused by comments.
I try the plugin…
hermes_44
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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 have implemented pagination in such a way that…
Andriy Gordiychuk
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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.php?page=X.
In my Google sitemap I specify the…
Jon Ewing
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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 point to each subsequent page in a series, rel="prev"…
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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 - Page 2 of 3
3rd post page: The Title - Page 3 of…
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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
added next
On some pages (sorting, etc.) I also…
M.V.
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