[Support request] Load More – Archive & Category Pages Not SEO Friendly

[Joe]

Hi

Just looking at the way you’ve done the load more on archive and category pages looks really good and I would love to implement it on my site, however, it’s not SEO friendly.

Anything after a # Google ignores from an internal linking perspective, so everything after the initial load will not be crawled by Google.

Please can you confirm if you have plans to change this?

[Tom]

Hi there,

All of the actual pages still exist (/page/2 etc..), so they’re still crawlable.

However, it’s true that Googlebots don’t scroll, so they won’t index all of the posts on your main infinite scroll page. I’m not sure if there’s a way around this, but I’m happy to dig deeper if you know of one 🙂

[Joe]

Thanks for confirming, Googlebot would only index them if you link to them. The issue isn’t the infinite scroll, it’s the URL defined on the anchor is #. You could change the anchor.

These guys seem to have a solution, I would love to use your native function on my category pages as it’s less third party plugins.

https://connekthq.com/plugins/ajax-load-more/add-ons/search-engine-optimization/

Thanks

[Tom]

As of right now our infinite scroll options aren’t filterable.

However, they are in GPP 1.11.0, so it will be possible to use their history option.

Once GPP 1.11.0-alpha.1 is out, feel free to bump this topic and I’ll help with the code 🙂

[Joe]

Thanks Tom, it may be a good idea to include the noscript option and then load in paginated links in the no script. That’s what the plugin I referred to above seems to do.

That way Googlebot can still crawl the paginated links but give the user an infinite scroll or scroll on click option.

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