Ecommerce, SEO & Pagination
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Hi
I'm trying to workout if there's something wrong with our pagination.
We include the rel="next" and "prev" on our pages.
When clicking on page 2 on a product page, the URL will show as something like -
/lockers#productBeginIndex:30&orderBy:5&pageView:list&
However, if I search site:http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/lockers in Google, it seems to find paginated pages:
http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/lockers?page=2
I have a feeling something is going wrong here, but haven't worked massively on Pagination before. Can anyone help?
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Ok thank you for your input
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Honestly, I think there is no really an issue with what's happening on your website. It can be a bit awkward for users to see different urls from expected ones, but most "standard" users don't look at browser's address bar anyway.
P.S. No, don't redirect ?page=2 to POST request.
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Hi
Thank you for your comprehensive response.
I see the issue no. 1 which I can get fixed.
Is it an issue for the post URL and the link to be different? Should the ?page=2 redirect to the post request URL? Or can this be left as it is?
I don't work on code so I am not sure how to identify whether there is something wrong here.
Thank you
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Just dug a little more.
Yes, my #3 thought seems to be correct. Basically, there is ajax or js which intercepts request and does its work.
However, I think that for rankings you actually would want ?page=x to rank, because if js is disabled in browser, then post request url might not work, you won't be able to bookmark and, if you change backend filtering, it won't exist.
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Hi there.
I see some issues:
- you say you use rel=next and rel=prev. When I go to provided url and look at the source code, i see only rel=next and ALL of them are linked to ?page=2. Definitely look into that.
- when i hover over page numbers, it shows me url structure as ?page=x, not the post request, so, there might be some miscommunication in the code. At the same time, ?page=x are existent and not redirected to post request pages (I assume that's what you want to be happening). So that might be an issue as well.
- It seems to me that what's happening is if i click on pagination button, i get to ?page=x, then internally from page the post request is being sent and it changes the displayed URL. If this is true, then ?page=x will be displayed in SERPs, because POST url change is happening after page is accessed.
Hope it's not super confusing
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