Paginated comments usually mean that you will have pages with duplicate content (as the content of the article is the same on each page, only the comments are different).
If the paginated comments load without changing the URL, this is also an issue as most of them will not get indexed by the search engines. Search engines usually ignore content that is not visible by default.
Last, but not least, paginated comments provide a bad user experience, as a reader has to load a new page each time to read more comments.
That being said, unless you have a good reason to do otherwise, paginated comments are not recommended.
Thank you for the elaboration Marius.
As of the first reason: WooCommerce does not load the whole page, just a seperate tab within the page. Would this still cause duplicate content?
The second reason is related to that. The reviews are never visible by default, as they are usually hiding behind a tab. They are visible in the way that google can see there are multiple pages if pagination is turned on.
About the bad user experience. Would you argue that it is better for user to scroll through hundreds of reviews before reaching the bottom of the page? Instead of using pagination?
(please note that I am not trying to argue with you but trying to find the real pro’s and cons of doing so)
Is there not a way to solve this use canonical links or nofollows?
Same happens with regular pagination of product pages if I am not mistaken?
Letting users scroll through 100’s of reviews is an absolute no go, question is where the cut-off is but there should still be an appropriate solution that makes both user and SEO (google) happy.
Unfortunately, we are unable to confirm whether there is any workaround for this, we recommend you to submit your thoughts, suggestions, or any recommendations directly to our development repository here https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues so our development team can investigate this further.
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(@sanderrrrr)
7 years, 11 months ago
Hello,
as I have products reviews at the bottom of my product page (but above related products) I wanted to limit them to 10 items and turn pagination on.
Now Yoast tells me that in most cases it is a bad idea to turn pagination on for these comments, but this will harm the user experience as they need to scroll through a list of reviews before reaching the bottom.
Could somebody explain WHY yoast recommends to turn this off?