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[SERPico]

I'm going to implement a Pagination plugin for a blog I'm working on, simply because i feel it provides ease of use for my visitors, as they can immediately click on a page number instead of having to go through each and every page.

My question is ,since i have read this also benificial for creating a more SEO friendly URL structure, if this is true?

Thanks!

[Jill]

Without seeing it, it seems to me that it would actually hinder SEO efforts as opposed to help. After all, why would page 3 be more relevent than auto mechanic services?

I sure don't want my auto mechanic services page to be known as page 3!

But maybe I'm misunderstanding how it works.

[SERPico]

Here is an article that i came across Jill that made me wonder about implementing this plugin.

Hope that makes it a little bit clearer then i have done

[Jill]

Guess I'm still confused.

Now if they could take that same structure, but use words instead of page numbers, they might have something there! I don't want my page being linked to with the anchor text of "2"!!!

[SERPico]

Would "Previous" or "Next" be a better alternative for you then

When the front page of your blog contains for example 10 posts then you as a visitor may want to see what the previous entries where and then you either click on next or previous in most cases.
I have yet to see a blog that uses anchor links to a previous front page which may be an option if the post entries are all about the same exact topic, but if you have a diversity of topics related to the same subject then it's getting a little more complicated and unfeasible, not to mention the clutter it would cause at the bottom of your page.

It also really doesn't matter if your page is being linked with "2" as a anchor link as it is not the post page itself containing the full article.
On the front page the article (Post Page) is being linked through the blog title and in my case with a Read more [Fill in desired keyword(s) here] type of link.

As of now i think the pagination concept is more crawler friendly then the "Previous" - "Next" type of link structure.

[Jill]

It all sounds about equal to me. As long as the rest of the site structure is correct, I can't personally see the need for that plug-in. But again, I haven't looked at it specifically, so what do I know?

[SERPico]

Equal it is not, that is for sure Jill.
Thanks for taking the time to give some feedback though.

[Scottie]

My opinon- could be useful for visitors. Not terribly useful for SEO, but not hurtful at all.

[SERPico]

Thanks Scottie.

[Nueromancer]

I'm going to implement a Pagination plugin for a blog I'm working on, simply because i feel it provides ease of use for my visitors, as they can immediately click on a page number instead of having to go through each and every page.

My question is ,since i have read this also benificial for creating a more SEO friendly URL structure, if this is true?

Thanks!

Persoanly if a blog post is long enough to have multiple pages I would split it into a series and post each part on sucsessive days.

Eg Blue Widget maintanance Part 1 , Blue Widget maintanance Part 2

and so on.

for example I am doing an intermitant series on my new pc build on my personal blog ime up to part 5 at the moment

hauntingthunder.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/new-pc-build-5-replacement-hsfs/

[Michael Martinez]

The structure of the page URL is almost completely irrelevant. It helps a little bit with relevance scoring but has nothing to do with whether a page is crawled and indexed.

Large blogs may be helped somewhat by sitemaps (either on-site HTML Sitemaps or XML Sitemaps that are exported to the search engines) but the RSS feeds that blogs publish combined with the "recent posts" archives that most blog software include automatically should be sufficient to get a decent blog crawled.

Where you run into trouble is if you have canonical issues (a big problem with many blogs where the same post may end up on five different pages without tagging and on potentially many more pages set up by tagging). Rather than use as many tags as possible for a blog post it is better to use as few tags as possible (I believe heavy tagging has been adapted by bloggers who frequent social media sites, where heavy tagging is encouraged and actually useful).

The best way to ensure that your older posts (and deeper content) are recrawled frequently is to link back to them from within your more recent posts.

BLOGGER redesigned its service around the beginning of this year and broke the archived posts feature. I have no idea of whether they have fixed it but they imprinted only the last 10-15 posts across ALL archived posts (thus wiping out most of their internal linkage). I stopped using BLOGGER when they implemented that "improvement".

Be sure that archived posts from six months ago only link to the posts that immediately preceded them rather than your most recent posts.