{"id":3625,"date":"2020-09-04T04:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T04:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kvr.dishasingh.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/04\/7-tips-for-optimizing-seo-pagination-boosting-ux\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:34:45","slug":"7-tips-for-optimizing-seo-pagination-boosting-ux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kvrwebtech.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/7-tips-for-optimizing-seo-pagination-boosting-ux\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Tips for Optimizing SEO Pagination & Boosting UX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pagination has been a topic of debate for SEO community since the last year. As Google recently announced that “rel=prev\/next” elements are no longer supported<\/a> due to less usage, it left SEOs with many questions and confusions. As many misconceptions and issues related to pagination are still going around, here are some of the myth busters’ tips to properly optimize pagination for SEO and handle it efficiently.<\/p>\n

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Credit: https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/rel-prev-next-pagination\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\nBut before jumping right into the discussion and strategies, let’s check some of these important questions that are most commonly in mind of every SEO enthusiast<\/a> out there.\n<\/p>\n

What is Pagination?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\nThe process of dividing the content into several sub-pages is knows as Pagination. Mostly, its implementations are very useful in forum threads; series based blog posts, e-commerce websites for displaying products and showcasing gallery pictures. Generally, user is being taken from one page to another by this process and is used to enhance the UX.\n<\/p>\n

Is it still beneficial in 2020?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\nDefinitely, pagination is one of the most important aspects for the website not only because it provides more discoverability to your content, articles and products but also for laying out an efficient internal linking to your articles, services and products.<\/p>\n

Therefore, without the pagination process and no internal linking, it will be difficult for Google bots to index those webpages. This will eventually lead to drop in the ranking of the site, making it very essential even nowadays for almost every kind of niches.\n<\/p>\n

Misconceptions and myths<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\nThere have always been misconceptions about pagination practice that it can cause issues such as duplicate content along with crawling, indexing errors. It’s possible in these two scenarios:<\/p>\n

Yes:<\/strong> If pagination is not properly optimized, it could create such errors.  <\/p>\n

No:<\/strong> If the pagination is done is an effective manner it can never lead to such issues.\n<\/p>\n

How to have efficient and optimized pagination?<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

\nFor all above reasons, it is essential to have a properly optimized pagination on your pages not only to bypass the penalties, but also to make good use of this feature and gain benefits from it for even future terms.<\/p>\n

Here are our recommendations for proper pagination of the pages to get the max output and results.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n