Company
Date Published
Author
Martin Dejnicki
Word count
1220
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text discusses the challenges of traditional pagination in SEO and user experience, particularly for large websites. It presents a smart, SEO-optimized pagination solution that dynamically reveals relevant pages while maintaining an intuitive UI. The solution uses anchor pages and dynamic pagination updates instead of showing individual page links. It ensures deep content crawlability while keeping the UI uncluttered, allowing users to navigate to any listing page in just two clicks from the blog landing page. The code behind the solution is explained, including the use of React hooks for state management and dynamic visibility. The pagination structure adapts dynamically based on user interactions, such as clicking the left or right ellipsis, which reveals hidden anchor pages. This approach solves pagination SEO issues while maintaining a great user experience, making it scalable for any large website.