How To Handle Pagination For A Blog?

Posted On : March 3rd, 2020   By : Dillip K Mohanty   To : Technical SEO

Those who are blogging for a long time must have come across the thought of how to handle the blog page pagination and what will be the impact on SEO if too many paginated pages are there on the site. It’s very much important to follow the best practices to handle too many paginated pages.

So, let’s grab the advice on handling paginated pages from Google Expert John Mueller.

Recently on Twitter, John was asked to share his tips on handling pagination for a blog with over thousand pages. In its reply, John advised to use categories or tags to cross link so that you have a handful paginated pages per type, from where you link to the blog posts. Keep a good & balanced hierarchy, not too flat, not too deep.

Here are the tweets:

Use categories or tags to cross link so that you have a handful paginated pages per type, from where you link to the blog posts. Keep a good & balanced hierarchy, not too flat, not too deep.

— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) February 29, 2020