What is Pagination in SEO?

What is Pagination in SEO?

 

Pagination is a method of segmenting links to content on multiple pages, affects 2 area of Seach engine Accessibility.
1.Crawl depth
2.Duplicate content

 

Why is Pagination an SEO Issue?
Pagination, the practice of segmenting links to content on multiple pages, affects two critical elements of search engine accessibility.

• Crawl Depth: Best practices demand that the search engine spiders reach content-rich pages in as few "clicks" as possible (turns out, users like this, too). This also impacts calculations like Google's PageRank (or Bing's StaticRank), which determine the raw popularity of a URL and are an element of the overall algorithmic ranking system.
• Duplicate Content: Search engines take duplication very seriously and attempt to show only a single URL that contains any given piece of content. When pagination is implemented improperly, it can cause duplicate content problems, both for individual articles and the landing pages that allow browsing access to them.

When is Pagination Necessary?
When a site grows beyond a few dozen pages of content in a specific category or subcategory, listing all of the links on a single page of results can make for unwieldly, hard-to-use pages that seem to scroll indefinitely (and can cause long load times as well).


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But, usability isn't the only reason pagination exists. For many years, Google's recommended that pages contain no more than 100 links (internal or external) in order to make it easy for spiders to reach down deep into a site's architecture. Many SEOs have found that this "limit" isn't hard and fast, but staying within that general range remains a best practice. Hence, pages that contain many hundreds or thousands of links may inadvertently be hurting the access of search engines to the content-rich pages in the list making pagination essential.

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in seo prospective , pagination will help you decrease the bounce rate... where its one of the critical factor to consider in seo...

 

Many websites (mostly ecommerce) are promoting such a variety of products that they´re ultimately forced to divide them into multiple pages. This process is called pagination

 

Pagination is informational page dividing into several smaller parts. Any dividing of massive data into pages should include navigation block for moving between pages. Pagination pages, like any other pages in the Internet, need optimization for successful and effective promotion of the resource and getting the maximum possible traffic.

 

Pagination means when a website sections content over the duration of several web pages. On e-commerce websites, this will take the proper execution of product & category listing. On an informational website, articles may be separated up across several web pages or organized in the proper execution of a slide show. On boards/forums, categories and subject discussions will generally period at least 2-3 web pages. Even weblogs, which usually feature article previews requested from newest to earliest, will run into pagination issues on their homepage.