Content, can you have to much?

[Jared Ritchey]

On Matt's response I'm curious if pagination matters to any degree (as I suspect it does).

I've seen tutorial sites that walk you through coding in ASP for instance have content that could easily fill 40 or 50 paragraphs yet they are broken up into successive pages with the >>Next and <<Back links on the bottom of each page.

I know these seem to index well since I do not program in ASP and was easily able to locate them with a few searches in google. But what about breaking up long articles into successive pages?

Doesn't it seem logical that even if the content is exhaustive that structure may play a role?

~ Jared

[MattL]

Originally Posted by Jared Ritchey On Matt's response I'm curious if pagination matters to any degree (as I suspect it does). I've seen tutorial sites that walk you through coding in ASP for instance have content that could easily fill 40 or 50 paragraphs yet they are broken up into successive pages with the >>Next and <<Back links on the bottom of each page. I know these seem to index well since I do not program in ASP and was easily able to locate them with a few searches in google. But what about breaking up long articles into successive pages? Doesn't it seem logical that even if the content is exhaustive that structure may play a role? ~ Jared

I know from my own site that just as many specific blog-entry pages get hit from the search engines as do the "index" pages that contain them, so a "more is more" theory seems applicable. As far as the SEs are concerned, they are distinct pages (because the contents do change quite a bit), but the Title, Header, and content all favor the same topic (which is good in their eyes).

Smart pagination should be considered no different than breaking up content sections into pages. While you could fit them all on to one page, who would it benefit?

-Matt

[lasvegasrealestate]

Matt poses a good question, who will it benefit. Would if be beneficial to the reader to have the information broken up into smaller, more scannable pages? Or in one long lump sum?