Reverse paging

[foxfox]

One of my thought on paging in sites containing developing articles, such as BLOG.

I think we can try to reverse the page number, e.g.

from

1,2,3,4,5,6,7

to

7,6,5,4,3,2,1

So when time goes by, you just add a large number for the front page, so previous link keep unchanged with the contents,

Should always be the same page.

[edited by: pageoneresults at 3:26 pm (utc) on Feb. 5, 2008]
[edit reason] Removed URI Reference - Please Refer to TOS [/edit]

[lammert]

This certainly has advantages, especially in combination with search engines. It often happens to me that a search engine query redirects me to such a page which has changed since the moment of indexing and isn't current anymore.

This makes indexing of active threads in forums and blogs quite useless. On my own blog I have stopped the problem by giving all meta pages a "noindex,follow" robots meta tag in the header. This causes only the single articles with permanent URLs to be indexed.

[foxfox]

>> This makes indexing of active threads in forums and blogs quite useless

If a thread or article is sorted by add time, then fix url has it advantage.

But even for active threads or articles, usually the `activeness` will be converged after sometimes, so the url is still fairly fixed after sometimes. (for example, some bloggers/forum disabled comment function after a certain period of time)

Yes, it might be useless for the search engine to return the listing page rather then the article page to normal useful, but the bottomline is : it should give some advantages (even little) for SEO since a fixed url pointing to the target.