How do you rank a category in pages?
Takeaways for Ranking Category Pages
- Optimize internal linking. Make sure category page is well linked to within site.
- Don’t keyword spam. Repeating keywords can cause Google to regard the page with caution.
- Links are Good. But…
- Make it easy for users to find the category page.
What are paginated pages?
Pagination is a web/SEO term used for a series of content that is broken up into a multi-page list. For example, on ecommerce websites, category pages often implement pagination to break up a series of products into multiple pages. On blogs, pagination is used when a list of articles spans across multiple pages.
How is pagination used in a search engine?
Pagination is a process which divides content across a series of pages. It is a common and widely used technique for websites to use pagination to divide lists of articles or products into a digestible format. The main issue with pagination in search is that content is divided across multiple pages, rather than loaded on one page.
How does a paginated page rank in Google?
The indexing properties of the paginated pages should be consolidated into one piece of content. That most appropriate paginated page should be ranked in Google’s search engine results (usually the first page). The recent announcement by Google means that the search engine no longer uses this link element as an indexing signal.
Which is the best SEO strategy for pagination?
The first instinct of many SEOs is to canonicalize or noindex paginated pages. This tactic is usually aimed at reducing index bloat which has been found to be effective on improving rankings for websites with low quality content. However, for pagination this tactic (in theory) might cause a negative impact on rankings on deeper level pages.
What to do if your website is not paginated?
Add useful on-page text to the root page, but not paginated pages. Add a category image with an optimized file name and alt tag to the root page, but not paginated pages. While paginated URLs are technically indexable, they aren’t an SEO priority to spend crawl budget on.