About pagination...

[frommarcq +]

Hi,

I'm really happy with v4.0.9 but there's something wrong according to me.
As I explained in http://www.68classifieds.com/forums/...uggestion.html, I think the "Dash" is bad for the SEO (understood by the spiders as directories). I changed slashes with hyphens, and I have resolved most of the 404 errors caused by the spiders.

The problem is still present with pagination. In fact, there are two problems :

The pagination is using slashes (baaaaaaaaaad !) :

PHP Code:

http://www.mywebsite.com/category-slug-of-the-category/page/2.html 


How can I convert that (for example) to :

PHP Code:

http://www.mywebsite.com/category-slug-of-the-category+p2.html 


The second problem is about the first page : the code is causing duplicate content (very baaaaaaaad !). When it contains a lot of listiongs, the same page will have two URLS :

PHP Code:

http://www.mywebsite.com/category-slug-of-the-category.html 


and

PHP Code:

http://www.mywebsite.com/category-slug-of-the-category/page/1.html 


It would be great, in pagination, that the first page doesn't have any pagination. But how to do that ?

Regards

Pascal

[frommarcq +]

I found an other problem with the pagination :
When you are on the second page of the category, with the actual code ('/page/2.html'), the links to the javascripts aren't correct : the browser is searching for

PHP Code:

http://www.mywebsite.com/category-slug-of-the-category/page/javascript/calendar/calendar.js 


instead of :

PHP Code:

http://www.mywebsite.com/javascript/calendar/calendar.js 


The slashes again ! Argl ! It causes a 404 error

I think it would be really useful to ban the slashes from URLs, and replace that sign with hyphens or "+" symbol (not sure that underscore is appreciated by GoogleBot).

Regards

Pascal

[Blair +]

Originally Posted by google

Consider using punctuation in your URLs. The URL http://www.example.com/green-dress.html is much more useful to us than http://www.example.com/greendress.html. We recommend that you use hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) in your URLs.

from URL structure - Webmaster Help Center

However, if you want to change the hyphen to an underscore, from memory...
I believe the address is built by one of the plug-ins.

[frommarcq +]

Thanks for your answer, Blair.
The problems I have with pagination, are to replace dashes with hyphens, and not to display /page/1.html for the first page of the results.
Regards
Pascal

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Originally Posted by frommarcq

Thanks for your answer, Blair.
The problems I have with pagination, are to replace dashes with hyphens, and not to display /page/1.html for the first page of the results.
Regards
Pascal

Pascal,

I understand that you are French so I wanted to point out to you that people may be confused by what you are saying.

A "dash" is "-", a hyphen is "-" the same thing. I believe you mean a "slash" which is "/", yes?

-Mike

[frommarcq +]

Mike,
You're right ! I'm confused...
It is a problem with slashes ! lol
I've asked for a new brain for Xmas !!!
Regards
Pascal

[frommarcq +]

Hi !
For the problem with the 'first' page (remove '/page/1.htm' from URL, in order to avoid duplicate content), I found the variable '$first' in Pagination.php.
How can I do to change it, in order to have no pagination URL (only for the first page) ?
Thanks !
Regards
Pascal