SEO friendly pagination

[webbber]

I have block urls with this: ? via robots.txt , so my news pagination cant be indexed.
Is there any way so change the pagination URLS to page-1.html instead of news/index.php?skip=2 and so on...

is there?

[FI-DD]

Try this:

1. Go to Options -> User Friendly Urls and put this into the first box:

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# pagination
RewriteRule ^page-([0-9]+)$ ?skip=$1 [QSA,L]

Then click "Save urls.ini" and click "Create .htaccess"


2. Open inc/show.news.php and replace every

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'.$PHP_SELF.'?skip=

with

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http://www.yourdomain.com/page-

[webbber]

working gr8, Love ya man!!!

I had tried that out but failed. So thanks a lot, I have been waiting for this!

I get urls like:

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site.com/news/page-2


to get .html after page number change to:

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# pagination
RewriteRule ^page-([0-9]+).html$ ?skip=$1 [QSA,L]

and in inc/show.news.php:

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/----------------------------------
// Previous link
//----------------------------------
if ($skip){
   $prev_next_msg = preg_replace('/\[prev-link\](.*?)\[\/prev-link\]/si', '<a href="'.$PHP_SELF.'noticias/page-'.($skip - $number).'.html">\\1</a>', $prev_next_msg);
   $prev_next_msg = preg_replace('/\[first-link\](.*?)\[\/first-link\]/si', '<a href="'.$PHP_SELF.'noticias/page-0.html">\\1</a>', $prev_next_msg);
} else {
   $prev_next_msg = preg_replace('/\[prev-link\](.*?)\[\/prev-link\]/si', '', $prev_next_msg);
   $prev_next_msg = preg_replace('/\[first-link\](.*?)\[\/first-link\]/si', '', $prev_next_msg);
   $no_prev = true;
}


and so on....

got me?

enjoy!

[webbber]

Something else,
When Im browsing into a category, eg:
site.com/category/sports/ and im paginating
when I click on the NEXT articles page, I get the same url like im in the main news page (sitem.com/news/page-1.html)
But, If we?re browsing a category, we should have urls like this:
site.com/category/sports/page-2.html
right?
How can we get this?

[FI-DD]

New approach:

1. Go to Options -> User Friendly Urls and put this into the first box:

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# pagination
RewriteRule ^page-([0-9]+)$ ?skip=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/([0-9a-z]+)/page-([0-9]+)$ ?category=$1&skip=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/page-([0-9]+)$ ?year=$1&month=$2&skip=$3 [QSA,L]

Then click "Save urls.ini" and click "Create .htaccess"


2. Open inc/show.news.php and find this:

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$PHP_SELF      = @preg_replace($skip.'$', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$prev_next_msg = $template_prev_next;

add below:

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$my_page = "http://www.domain.com/news/"; //Change to your path
if($category){
   $my_page .= 'category/'.category_get_link($category).'/';
}
if($year and $month){
   $my_page .= $year.'/'.$month.'/';
}
$my_page .= "page-";

3. In inc/show.news.php change every:

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.$PHP_SELF.'?skip='.

to this:

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.$my_page.

[webbber]

ok, let me try that.
I have also activated the ARCHIVE function, so that it can shows articles that have been sent per month.
For ex: At August, I get this at the title: News > 2008 > 08, But I have the same issue with pagination.
At this month I have more than 200 articles, and when I click on the NEXT PAGE link I get the same URl just like before:
site.com/news/page-2.html and it should be:
site.com/news/2008/08/page-2.html

I think that the inc/show_news.php should have some kind of condition depending on URL your surfing.
Like, if you watching the categories page, or the news main page, or archives pages. Just for pagination.

Hope you understand guys,
regards

[FI-DD]

I edited the code above. Please try again.

[flyboy17]

this one is nice. But can you also change/reverse the order of the url's?

for example

0.html would contain the oldest news (newsitem 1,2,3..7)
1.html contain newsitems 8,9...14.
...
x.html would contain the most recent newsitems.

Difference? In this case the content of the html pages would always contain the same newsitems.

Thanks

[Ned Flanders]

I edited the code above. Please try again.

It almost worked. URL's are fine now and it works in the main news section (domain.com/).

But what doesn't work is when you're inside a category. The "category/name_cateogry/" part is now included in the pagination link, but it doesn't go anywhere:

http://www.website.com/category/category_name/page-6 (page cannot be displayed)

When I manually change it to
http://www.website.com/category/categor ... kip=NUMBER

It works again. So somehow the categories can't handle 'page-' .

Please help me.

[Ned Flanders]

I have found the problem.
I either just can't handle category url names consisting of more than one word or it just can't handle a hyphen ('-').