Comments on: Michael Keaton Stars In Multiplicity II – eCommerce Pagination

By: 3 Tips for Surviving E-commerce SEO! « Social-icious

3 Tips for Surviving E-commerce SEO! « Social-icious — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:08:10 +0000

[...] caused by pagination and sorting is also a bitch! I read this great post on the Blue Acorn blog that really [...]

By: Sadie

Sadie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:01:55 +0000

Great Post!!!! Provide a complete solution for exactly the issues I was having! >>> BIG HUG <<< for writing this post.

By: SEO & Pagination - What is Pagination? | SEO - janet bartoli roussos

SEO & Pagination - What is Pagination? | SEO - janet bartoli roussos — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:36:41 +0000

[...] site that helps describe this a bit further – from David Hamill’s blog and from reading blue acorn’s great technical details – still I think eliminating pagination all together and just stick to [...]

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project server solutions — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:46:02 +0000

I have no idea about AJAX.I know little bit about javascript.Your article is very useful

By: Sasha

Sasha — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:31:30 +0000

Actually made a change to how our product renders paging based on your post, never thought about mycategory.aspx?p=1 pointing to the same page as mycategory.aspx which will understandably impact the page rank. So now our first page simply goes to mycategory.aspx.

Thanks! I’ll be checking your blog more often for ideas to improve our product.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:29:01 +0000

Interesting topic and as an architect of one of the major ecommerce products, I would be taking into consideration the approaches you described. Unfortunately Option #1 & #4 won’t really work for categories with a lot of products, since the page load will simply take too long from browser rendering, browser downloading and database querying prospective. #2 looks promising, but again, there is problem with indexing.

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By: Blue Acorn

Blue Acorn — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:02:15 +0000

Thanks Justin – great suggestion. I’ve actually used that solution as well with success (and still am on certain sites). Although as you pointed out – it is very important to have a limited number of products in that category.

By: Justin @ Palmer Web Marketing

Justin @ Palmer Web Marketing — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:50:25 +0000

Great post on a much neglected topic!

I might suggest a 5th solution that I’ve used in the past. That solution is simply to eliminate pagination all together, and show all the products on the listing page. While this won’t work in every situation (e.g. for etailers with hundreds of products in each category), I’ve found it helps in several areas:

1) improved indexation/ pagerank flow
2) prevents duplicate content by having only 1 product listing page
3) improved usability (in my a/b testing, product listing pages with more default items resulted in lower bounce rates and higher conversions)

Before I tried this for the first time, I was concerned that high page load time would turn away visitors. However, it didn’t seem to have much of an effect. In fact, it seemed to reduce overall wait time since customers did not have to click to the next page, but rather scroll down. It also seemed to reduce overall server stress, since it reduced overall pageviews.

I’d love to know if anyone else has used this tactic successfully.

By: Bloggers Digest - 6/20/08 | Get Elastic

Bloggers Digest - 6/20/08 | Get Elastic — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:38:30 +0000

[...] on pagination for a while, but Blue Acorn beat me to the punch with a fantastic explanation of the SEO impact of pagination (splitting your category pages into Page 1, 2, 3 and so on), your technical options and a [...]