Paginating WordPress Posts & Pages

Pagination is used to break down a page or post into several pages. I do not usually write long posts so I have rarely needed to use this feature.  However, there are times a paginated blog can greatly enhance the reader’s experience.

Breaking your post down into smaller chunks will make it easier for your website visitor to read. But you should be careful to only use pagination when your blog is long enough to benefit from it.

Paginating a blog can also help your blog to load faster. This can be especially important for blogs containing a lot of pictures.

If used correctly, pagination can have a positive effect on your SEO. This is because it leads people to click through more pages within your website, showing more user engagement. However be careful not to abuse this as over-paginating can frustrate the reader and reduce engagement.

The blue.lift template supports pagination. This means that it will display paginated posts and pages correctly.  And unlike many other WordPress themes, the blue.lift template uses Google’s pagination scheme so it is properly optimized for SEO.

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2 comments

1. 
   Mahsum on March 31, 2013 at 6:33 am
   One thing that isn't addressed is the Title Tag on each of the pagtanied pages. For instance, if there are 3 pages, each is part of a series, and Google recommends each page have it own unique title. When doing pagination with rel="next" and rel="prev" do the titles of each page read the same? i.e.Page 1: Desktop ComputersPage 2: Desktop ComputersPage 3: Desktop ComputersORPage 1: Desktop Computers Page 1Page 2: Desktop Computers Page 2Page 3: Desktop Computers Page 3
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     Karen Kuah on April 1, 2013 at 3:09 pm
     Google doesn't specify that every page in the series needs to have a different title, so you could keep the titles the same. We use the same title and have no reports of duplicate titles from Google Webmaster, so it would appear that the unique title rule is not applied to paginated pages. If you do choose to have different titles (eg. with page numbers), keep in mind that Google is supposed to consolidate the indexing properties of the paginated pages, it is possible that adding 'page x' to the title would dilute the strength of the keywords in your main title (imagine combining all the titles of the pages into one title). So I would recommend keeping the title the same.

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