Drop Down Menu as Pagination

[CameronT]

Hi,

We currently use a drop down menu option for our paginated pages using JavaScript, what would be the best search engine friendly way around this?

[RyanPurkey]

Probably to get rid of pagination and let the search engine index the full article.  Obviously, if your revenue model depends on page views and advertising income this option decreases, but you can still make the unpaginated version the canonical page and likely see the search benefits of doing so.

[CameronT]

Thanks for that, but as we have multiple pages for a given article the drop down menu option needs to be there just wondering how we can make this search friendly, maybe have the links linkable...would that work?