Technical SEO

Pagination

The practice of dividing content across multiple pages, common on e-commerce and blog sites.

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Technical SEO

Pagination is the practice of dividing content across multiple linked pages, common on e-commerce category pages and blog indexes. Proper pagination ensures search engines can access all products or posts across paginated pages. Self-referencing canonicals on each page and proper internal linking are recommended.

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