Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
We have a page of user input which gets contributed to on a sporadic basis. Some of these pages have gotten rather long and we need to introduce paging.
At present we have:
www.example.com/user-inputs.htm
Given the following restructuring:
www.example.com/user-inputs-mostrecent.htm
www.example.com/user-inputs-pg1.htm
www.example.com/user-inputs-pg2.htm
www.example.com/user-inputs-pg3.htm
...
www.example.com/user-inputs-pgX.htm
Should pg1 hold the oldest content, and pgX hold the most recent not included on "-mostrecent.htm"? Or should pgX hold the oldest content and pg1 hold the most recent content not included on www.example.com/user-inputs-mostrecent.htm?
If pg1 holds the oldest content, it will be an archive approach where that content will not change. If pg1 holds the most recent info not contained on www.example.com/user-inputs-mostrecent.htm then it will be constantly changing.
Is it better to have all the content on all pages perpetually 'scrolling'? Or is better to keep the pages static (i.e. keeping oldest content on "-pg1.htm", second oldest content on "-pg2.htm" and so forth) and rather just have new content coming onto "-mostrecent.htm"?
Hope this makes sense, feedback appreciated :)
[edited by: tedster at 5:06 pm (utc) on July 27, 2009]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it cannont be owned [/edit]
I've never noticed any Google issues with either type of pagination, however, so it's probably all about doing what's best your users.
Once your older content gets pushed onto the new page will it always stay on that page? i.e. when that page is filled up will that page's content never change again? Is it better to keep it static or to have all "older" pages constantly changing as more stuff gets taken off the most recent page?
Thanks
