Comments on: To Paginate, or Not to Paginate http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/ Website Promotion, Generating Revenue, Website Management Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: SEO Software http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-40279 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:13:51 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-40279 Yea sure paging your articles can have great SEO impact as you mentioned and opens the door for better monetization of your articles.

However i do not recommend it, beacause they are not user friendly for some reasons:

-People with low internet connection and with slow PCs will take them longer to read the articles. since the load time will be longer.

-People like to see all in one place to save time.

-If your good information on the second page, people will never going to see it because they will judge the article from the first page.

Thanks for the post though
Mike J.

]]> By: Ken Barbalace http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-147 Tue, 09 May 2006 04:36:13 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-147 I try to balance scrolling against multiple page breaks. I personally try to keep the scroll length of my content to a length that is similar to my vertical menus and vertical ads. I look at page breaking as a way to put ads back in front of the user. Since I pay writers by the word, it is important to make sure ads get as much visiblity as possible.

]]> By: Josh http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-133 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:50:26 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-133 Users may not like to scroll… but from a user perspective, please, please, please if you are going to paginate like this (which is a great idea from an SEO perspective) include a printable version of your articles with all of the contents on one page. I am the type of user who does not like to read long articles on a computer screen (one page or ten, it doesn’t make a difference) … so I often print them out. Forcing me to click, then print, then click, then print, etc. Or copy and paste each page into a Word file before I print is rather annoying and I might just skip your article altogether.

]]> By: Chromate http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-119 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:53:20 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-119 I wonder if the thing about users preferring not to scroll is dated now? 3 or 4 years ago it wasn’t common place for a mouse to have a middle tracking wheel. Now it’s quite usual. Now if I use a mouse without one, I still find myself stroking it with my index finger, expecting the page to move!

I personally prefer to scroll, but not too far. Some sites break their articles up in to too many pages and it’s just annoying.

I agree that there are sometimes SEO benefits though.

]]> By: Saša Ebach http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-117 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:53:35 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-117 “Finally, I once read a study many years ago (say 4ish) about how users do not like to scroll. So supposedly multipage articles enhance the user experience as well.”

Users *say* they don’t like to scroll, but studies have shown that the usability is actually better if they do.

http://www.uie.com/articles/page_scrolling/

Personally I hate to click. I can just hit my space bar if i want to read the next page. I think the optimal solution is to have a print version with the full text. Since I read like 10 articles every day I will just print them out anyway. Reading all of those on the screen is just too tiresome. And please, put nothing in the printed page that disturbs my reading (like layout or navigation).

]]> By: Peach http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-116 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:06:22 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-116 Hey Chris,
on my sites, I put rel=”nofollow” on links that are non-contextual, such as page numbers and read-more links, as to purify the anchor text of contextual links. Do you think this will make any difference with the major search engines? Or do you think the more general non-contectual link texts are filtered out anyways. (such as “read more” or “previous post”)

]]> By: Dennis Pallett http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-115 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:16:38 +0000 http://www.websitepublisher.net/blog/2006/04/19/to-paginate-or-not-to-paginate/#comment-115 “Finally, I once read a study many years ago (say 4ish) about how users do not like to scroll. So supposedly multipage articles enhance the user experience as well.”

Indeed, I read something similar, but I also read that users don’t like really short-pages and clicking dozens of times.

The best way is probably semi-long pages, and about 3 or 4.

Usually, I have around 500 words per page, and then 3-4 pages (depending on the length of my articles).

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