Pager + SEO - Is it possible?

[informatica810]

Hi, I am having this issue.

I know that pager are not friends with SEO, but I want to know which is the best to do in this situations.

for example, I work in a news company, and I have a lot of news pages that are very extensive so I use a pager.

Well here I have the problem.

suppose that the url is www.mysite.com/news/id/here-comes-the-title

When you enter that URL you are viewing the first page that has this meta:

title

keywords

description

Now, the problem comes when the user goes to the page 2 of this news article.

What I shall do?

1- Change the url to www.mysite.com/news/id/here-comes-the-title-PAGE2

www.mysite.com/news/PAGE2-id/here-comes-the-title

www.mysite.com/news/id/PAGE2/here-comes-the-title

2- in the page 2,3,4,5 ... add a meta robot noindex?

In the option 2 I think that I am loosing the opportunity to index the body of my article.

Is this correct?

Thanks

[cre8]

I would recommend using the rel="next" and rel="prev" tags in your pager control:  http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

In regards to the URL, I'd just put a '/{page#} after the main article URL.

[informatica810]

and what about the title and the meta robots?

[cre8]

From GWMT Blog - There's no need to mark page 2 to n of the series with noindex unless you're sure that you don't want those pages to appear in search results.

Regarding the page titles - the rel="next & rel="prev" do not solve the duplicate title issue, so you would need to alter the tiles on the subsequent pages.  I would just make the page titles unique by adding something like this after the current title (assuming you were on page 2):  ' Page 2' or ' Page 2 or 50'.

[informatica810]

great!

Now I have that working. I will remove the noindex from that page.

Can you check it here http://www.espectador.com/suenatremendo-pagina-6

Thanks

[cre8]

On your pager anchor, I don't see the rel="next" & rel="prev" attributes:

On the link you sent above, the pager control at the bottom of the page should has the below markup, but you need to add a rel='prev' attribute to it.

_[anterior] _

Similarly the below link needs to have a rel='next' attribute added.

[próxima]

The title looks OK.  Personally, I'd make a small adjustment and not connect the hyphen to the last word..  So I'd change this:  Suena Tremendo-Pagina-6 to this:  Suena Tremendo - Pagina-6

[informatica810]

Yes, I have it, please check it again and correct me if I am wrong. Thanks

http://www.espectador.com/suenatremendo-pagina-6

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[cre8]

Looks good!

[informatica810]

Thanks