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Does Google Read Full Article Which is Posted in Pagination Post?

by panksking
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Hello,

I would like to know one thing. When we write a pagination post in WordPress.
We put <!--nextpage--> tag in the post to break the page. After that, we add Canonical url so that search engine don't get the post pages as duplicate content.

My question here is that when we put the next page tag in the post.
1. Does that tag restrict the search engine to consider the complete post as one post? And it lowers the keyword density for that post?
2. Or it does not matter how many page break or pagination tags we put in a post. The post is read by the search engine as one post and it does not affect the SEO and keyword density of that post.

Please tell that what happens when we put the next page tag in a WordPress post.
#article #full #google #pagination #post #read
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    SE Bots job is not to read "articles" but to observe keywords which are part of content
    and as long there is hyperlink pointing Bot somewhere else, it will be following it

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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi panksking,

    Search Engines, like Google, do not index posts, they index individual web pages, or URLs to be more precise. So if you truncate or split a post across multiple URLs Google will index a page based only on the content that gets displayed on the rendered page (URL), nothing more, nothing less.

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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by panksking View Post

    <!--nextpage--> tag in the post to break the page.
    That is not a nextpage tag. That line would actually be totally ignored.....
    obviously that is for wordpress to split the pages up. Probably calling a script.

    If that's done using php, on the surface, google might follow it all.

    But then you have an article split among multiple pages, different urls.

    How google would go about indexing the urls that follow, might be up for debate or even chance.

    The php probably creates a link at the bottom of the page, so google should follow that.

    And knowing how php works, it would be just like any other link to a web browser, hence google.

    But the multiple urls might be somewhat of a problem. You would have what amounts to an unfinished article on each page.

    Google does not read the whole article. And if the next pages are not as focused as the first, there is where the problem lies.

    Google looks basically at what is at or near the top and beginning.

    Read a long article. Read the first paragraph. Then read the 6th. Would you like a webpage starting with the 6th paragraph? Maybe, maybe not.

    Shorter articles are better. Splitting a long article up into multiple ones is actually better.

    That way, each page is focused.

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