URL Going Over the Last Page of Pagination - Post Webinar Discussion

[BeTheBoss]

**Discussion Question: **Lets say you have 33 pages of paginated content but someone lands on page 34+, what do you do?

I just setup a variable on my site so when someone lands on a page that is over the page count they are redirected to the last page of the paginated content. My reasoning is the user is looking for the last page, so why not redirect them to it?

Now I just saw in the latest webinar on ecommerce (by Everett Sizemore) that he recommends a 404… should I switch? Why a 404?

Again, what do you guys do when you encounter this situation?

[Everett]

Hey Nathan,

I think your idea is great, though maybe a 302 would be better. If the amount of paginated pages are constantly going up and down those 301s may not be very "permanent".

But I agree that redirecting to the last "real" page in the set is a better solution than the one I recommended if the developer can handle that coding.

Thanks for sharing!

[BeTheBoss]

Ah perfect! Thanks for the recommendation on the 302.

I got more out of todays webinar than any other seomoz webinar to date. Great job.

[NakulGoyal]

I second that opinion about Everett's webinar Nathan. It was awesome. Thumbs Up to you Everett.