: SEO: Navigation of Multiple Page Results When displaying product pages I only show a subset of products to save server bandwidth and increase load times. Each page is implement as a link.

@Cody1181609

This is a bit speculative as you don't mention what CMS/cart/whatever you're using, if any, but it sounds like you feel you're forced to always display links for all pages. There are other design patterns for pagination links of the type you're describing that you could explore, eg.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |5 ... 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15

... where once you reach page 5 or so, the first several fall off the list and 6-10 get displayed. There are a lot of variants on this. As John said, the pages just need to exist and be accessible during crawling, even with simple next/prev links. They don't necessarily need to all be accessible from all other pages.

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@Sarah324

If you don't have links to those pages then search engines won't be able to find them as they typically do not submit forms or follow JavaScript. To compensate for this you should make sure you have an XML sitemap linking to those pages so they can find them. I would also make an HTML sitemap that does this as well.

You may also want to consider creating some kind of hyperlink system to get to those pages that are less intrusive then a full blown pagination linkset. Even just a "previous" and "next" button is all that is needed for the search engines to be able to crawl those pages and find that content.

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