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Posted by Andy Dingley on 04/06/06 12:41
Marc wrote:
> What is the point in these next page and last page links - do they aid
> search engines?
Not really - any more than any other linkage.
What they're good for is with a smart browser that recognises them and
pulls the links out onto a toolbar (there are some Firefox extensions
that do this, and a number of phone browsers do it onto physical
buttons). This is a really nice way to navigate through a multi-page
site, because you're using the same button for every link, for every
site. This is a UI feature that the user can customise to be
consistent, i.e. same button, same toolbar for every site.
It's a feature well worth implementing.
OTOH, most of the extensions I've seen that support this also need to
support sites that don't provide these links - so they also have
scanners that scan the page and look for <a> links with text that
suggests they might be the "next page" link. It's still a great
feature, but the UI's work-around means that the "properly done"
version doesn't actually work that much better than the simpler version.
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