Pagination

SEO: Lessons from Google’s ‘rel=prev/next’ Pagination Identifier

Search engine optimization professionals were caught off guard this week by Google’s admission that it hasn’t used its pagination identifier in “a number of years.” The admission reinforces the requirement that SEO practitioners be flexible and focus on what matters. What Is rel=prev/next? Originally designed to streamline indexation of multi-page experiences, rel=prev/next told Google that […]

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Google says it doesn’t use rel=prev/next for pagination • Yoast

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Edwin Toonen Edwin is an experienced writer, editor & content manager. Before joining Yoast, he spent years honing his skill at The Netherlands’ leading web design magazine. Sometimes you wonder if Google even knows how Google works. Search is getting more complex by the day and there comes a point where it’s anybody’s guess. Yesterday,

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SEOs frustrated by Google’s belated pagination announcement

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This week, SEOs learned that Google stopped supporting the rel=prev/next markup (that indicates a web page is part of a larger set of pages) within its indexing process years ago. Having factored rel=prev/next into their site design and investing time into maintaining those structures, site owners, web designers, and SEOs have some charged emotions about

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Google Shares Guidance on Pagination for SEO

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Google’s John Mueller commented recently on Reddit about pagination. Pagination isn’t something you think about until you need to think about it. So getting a refresher on the proper use of pagination versus a canonical is useful, especially if you enjoy the nerdier side of technical SEO. When to Use Pagination The original question was

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Pagination & SEO: best practices • Yoast

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Paginated archives have long been a topic of discussion in the SEO community. Over time, best practices for optimization have evolved, and we now have pretty clear definitions. This post explains what these best practices are. It’s good to know that Yoast SEO applies all these rules to every archive with pagination. Indicate that an

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