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cfinke on March 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding Horror: The End of Pagination

Every time you make a new post, you invalidate all thousand (ten thousand? 100k? million?) older pages. It's absolutely moronic. Google has no chance of keeping up. You make one new post and Google has to re-index thousands of pages.

You shouldn't be allowing Google to index /page/2, /page/3, /page/4; that content is obviously going to change, and no user is ever going to search for "page 9 of the archives of example.com."

seiji on March 28, 2012 | [–]

You would think so, but at least tumblr isn't restricting it: http://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+/page/300

mjwalshe on March 28, 2012 | [–]

no but they do try and group pagnation pages and wheer its the best result show a result deep inside pagnated pages.

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