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URL structure for pagination - and Google

         

ianevans

6:17 pm on Jul 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

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In order to keep within Google's 100 link a page limit, I paginated some of our photo galleries. A large event might have over 500 photos.

I'm wondering if Google has any preference for pagination?

Does it have problems with:

/photos/event?page=2
/photos/event?page=3

or are we better off with:
/photos/event/page/2
/photos/event/page/3

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 6:39 am (utc) on July 24, 2008]

g1smd

7:39 pm on Jul 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

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One question, and it is a biggie...

Is your *NEWEST* page of content on Page 1 or on Page "n"?

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As for URL format, both can be equally indexed.

Single parameters on URLs are not an issue.

However, if you went the rewrite way, I would use:

photos/event/1/

instead, and also would make sure that the bare URL like /photos/event/ was not a Duplicate of page zero, or of page one.

pageoneresults

7:54 pm on Jul 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

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was not a Duplicate of page zero, or of page one.

Man, I wish you would stop using my nic like that. Its like you called me to this topic g1smd. :)

or are we better off with:

/photos/event/page/2 
/photos/event/page/3

I like the above. No trailing forward slash. Extensionless.

I'd look at trimming a level if you can...

/photos/event/2 
/photos/event/3

The shorter, the better!

ianevans

8:11 pm on Jul 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Is your *NEWEST* page of content on Page 1 or on Page "n"?

It would all be the same event. Won't give real examples because that'd break the TOS, but let's say I was covering a large event ... and we had 500 photos of people.

We list, say, 50 people on a page to keep under the 100 link limit. So it's not a question of which page is newer, they're all from the same day.

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 6:42 am (utc) on July 24, 2008]