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Pagination

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- [Instructor] Another incredibly common problem I come across involves pagination. Many sites contain paginated content, and it shows up in many ways. You could be moving a user through multiple pages of a blog article, or toggling through a list of data. As a user, pagination is usually relatively clear, and we understand the relationship of the information as we toggle between pages. But to Google, pagination can pose problems. Google doesn't necessarily crawl your site in an orderly fashion. It may start its crawl on page 10 of your paginated content and have no idea that the series of content is related. Fortunately, Google supports link elements, called r-e-l equals next and r-e-l equals previous, or rel equals next and rel equals previous. And you'll apply these tags to let Google know when it has encountered a sequence of paginated pages. Links to any of the pages will be treated as links to the series of pages as a whole. In addition, Google will typically show the most…

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