Now, these classes look a bit empty, but soon we’ll be populating them with other useful parameters and we’ll see what the real benefit is. For now, it’s important that we have a way to send a  different set of parameters for AccountController and OwnerController. We will also write a custom React hook that gives us a range of numbers to be rendered by the pagination component.

It prevents the creation of new URLs based on the filters that a user chooses. You could also determine the parameters without any SEO value and prevent them from being crawled and indexed. There are sites that allow filters in order to show more relevant options to the user.

Easier Navigation

These filters create new and unique URLs based on the parameters used to filter. This major search engine is able to identify related pages, even when directives like noindex and the canonical tag are not used. Search engine bots may not be able to ‘tell’ that the pages with similar content actually represent different products. In worst cases, they may flag your site for duplicate content. If you split content types as a single article spread across multiple pages, you may end up with pages with little content. They want content that is valuable to the user, and answers a user’s intent.

We’ll firstly use JavaScript to divide the table into different “pages” and to add button functionality for navigating through those pages. Optimized site speed not only enhances the user experience but can also help to boost your search engine rankings. Identify what is slowing your View all page down using Google’s PageSpeed Insights . Now, let’s look at an example where we use the parameters by which we can/want to give out unique content, and it’s important for us to keep such filtered pages in the index. For example, we have a category with sneakers, and we want to create landing pages for search deliveries with different brands, using parameters in the URL. In this method, as users scroll or click a “Show More” button, more content is loaded dynamically.

Alternative Pagination Methods

To handle the mentioned drawbacks of the normal keyset pagination, you can add an offset to the timestamp and use a so-called “Continuation Token” or “Cursor”. The offset is the position of the element relative to the first element with the same timestamp. It’s passed to the client in the response and can be submitted back to the server in order to retrieve the next page. Using ‘old’ pagination techniques is entirely unavoidable as the ‘old’ approaches are still important, especially when it comes to internal linking. Internal linking will make it easier for search engine bots to find paginated pages. When your site has large amounts of data, search engine bots need to use their crawl budget wisely.

There is also a likelihood that the crawl budget will be spent on the pages that the pagination directs to, and other significant pages may never be crawled nor indexed. Once the user reaches the end of the page or has seen several items in a particular category,  it is intuitive that they will want to see more results. We have already mentioned a few reasons that necessitate the use of pagination, for example, when there is a large amount of data that can’t reasonably be presented as a single page. Pagination makes it easier for the user to choose the page that they want to view. If they can’t find what they are looking for in the home page, they know that they have a variety to choose from (over 35 pages).

Getting Started with Pagination in ASP.NET Core WebApi

This means that it is possible to create an infinite number of crawlable and indexable URLs, which would result in a massive duplicate content issue. You need to reduce the number of links from the pagination landing page to the specific paginated pages. This article by Google explains how to go about making what is pagination a page canonical among other pages with duplicate content. This approach causes problems as it may result in paginated pages which are deeper in the link structure not being indexed at all. After getting data on how your site currently implements pagination, you are now ready to fix the identified issues.

The concept of an edge also proves useful if there is information that is specific to the edge, rather than to one of the objects. For example, if we wanted to expose “friendship time” in the API, having it live on the edge is a natural place to put it. A common use case in GraphQL is traversing the relationship between sets of objects. There are a number of different ways that these relationships can be exposed in GraphQL, giving a varying set of capabilities to the client developer. Webmaster tools can quickly detect issues related to site optimization, including page pagination.

SEO solutions to paginated content

HasPrevious is true if CurrentPage is larger than 1, and HasNext is calculated if CurrentPage is smaller than the number of total pages. TotalPages is calculated by dividing the number of items by the page size and then rounding it to the larger number since a page needs to exist even if there is one item on it. PagedList will inherit from the List class and will add some more to it. We can also, move the skip/take logic to the PagedList since it makes more sense. Since we’re returning just a subset of results to the caller, we might as well have a PagedList instead of List.

The first 100 records on the page in the overall order of objects you are maintaining. Your explanation tells that you are using some kind of ordering ids to define the order of your objects for pagination. One problem may be if you add a data item, but based on your description it sounds like they would be added to the end (if not, let me know and I’ll see if I can improve on this). We now have a fully functional and accessible implementation of a paginated section.

Use Parameter URLs for the Paginated Pages

If the index is within the range, the toggle keyword applies the hidden class (which we’ll define in our CSS code) to the item, effectively hiding it. If the index doesn’t meet either condition, the hidden class is removed, making the item visible. In general, we’ve found that cursor-based pagination is the most powerful of those designed. As a reminder that the cursors are opaque and that their format should not be relied upon, we suggest base64 encoding them. There are several ways to help search engines understand that your paginated content is not duplicated and to get it to rank well on SERPs. Splitting information across several pages increases the website’s usability .

• An ideal API endpoint would allow it’s consumers to get only a specific number of records in one go.
• Blocking access to the page with robots.txt and using canonical tag simultaneously.
• Websites may need to use multiple pages for easier navigation, better user experience, buyers journey, persona, etc.
• This seems to be more or less how Facebook paginates in its Graph API (scroll down to the bottom to see the pagination links in the format I gave above).

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. When you have ‘shallow’ link depth, then link equity can be passed to paginated pages, giving them a chance to rank as standalone pages. This means that even if products may be in the same category, their individual description on each product page needs to be different.

There is one more thing we can do to make our solution even more generic. We have the OwnerParameters class, but what if we want to use it in our AccountController? Parameters that we send to the Account controller might be different. Maybe not for paging, but we’ll send a bunch of different parameters later on and we need to separate the parameter classes.