Pagination Issue

[seomengo]

Hello Community,

We have a pagination issue on a set of pages :

http://homengo.com/s/location/

http://homengo.com/s/location/?page=1

and so on ( ?page=2, ?page=3, ...).

As you can see in the source code the pagination rel and prev are there.

First question : does moz crawler know and recognize pagination ?

Second question : if yes then do you know what could be wrong with pagination on these pages ?

Thanks

[crackingmedia]

Hi, I looked at your site and could not see how the pagination is working as all I get if I scroll through the properties on the right-hand side is the page loading more properties dynamically so I never get to the end of page 1 it seems.

What am I misunderstanding?

Peter

[seomengo]

Hello Peter,

Sorry yes i shoud have mentionned that we use jquery-ias to provide infinite scrolling on the website.

But on the html side it does not change anything since pagination is still in the html and you get different results if you access a page with a parameter such as ?page=3 or ?page=4

[crackingmedia]

OK, I understand now.

Looking at the source code I think it is making it hard for a crawler (Moz or Google) to make sense of it. Combine that with the AJAX running as it is I think it is not straightforward for a person to navigate either - just saying it how it is for me as a visitor to the site

With regard to Google, I think this is further compounded for them to relate what they can crawl to pages it will serve as relevant results for a search.

On the AJAX stuff this blog post by Matthew Edgar on Moz may help:

Can Google Really Access Content in JavaScript? Really?

Particularly striking for me is what Matthew says at the end:

Yes, Google can execute some JavaScript to find content but Google has limitations on what it can do, and what it can understand. The best practice remains the same: put the content you want Google to crawl and index in basic HTML. For example, use jQuery tabs to put the content on one file instead of AJAX tabs that spreads out the content across several files. In short, make it easy for Google to access your content.

Sorry, I don't mean for my thoughts to be seen as negative, but I hope the info helps you in some way.

Peter