Does Lazy Loading Create Indexing Issues of products?
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I have store with 5000+ products in one category & i m using Lazy Loading . Does this effects in indexing these 5000 products. as google says they index or read max 1000 links on one page.
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Hello Vinay,
Please see Mashable for an example:
http://mashable.com/2013/4/They have pagination links at the bottom of the page and use lazy loading / infinite scroll.
Adam Sherk has a good post about this:
http://www.adamsherk.com/seo/seo-tips-for-infinite-scrolling/ -
Everett i got ur point you mean ajax for users and pagination for spiders. can you show me one exp. that will help me alot.
Thanks
vinay
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View the source of the cached page and look toward the bottom. Do all of your products/listings show in the source? If so, you're all good. If not, you may want to add pagination for the spiders, as mentioned above.
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thanks Everett Sizemore.
I just check cashe as you suggested. and i found lazy loading is also working on cashed page. that means everything ok?
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Great suggestions Everett: "If you're curious how much of the page they are rendering just looked at the cached version of the page from the search results."
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Hello,
Where did you read that Google only indexes or reads a maximum of 1,000 links on a page? I think this is outdated information. However, it is best practice not to have that many links on a page even if Google does crawl more than 100 or 1,000 per page.
So to answer your question, yes if you're loading additional product listings via javascript after the user scrolls down it could cause Google to only render part of the page. However, often this does not cause "indexation issues" for your product pages because they have other paths into them from sub-categories, related product links, external links, sitemaps, etc...
If you're curious how much of the page they are rendering just looked at the cached version of the page from the search results. That should answer your question directly from Google.
I usually recommend pagination links be added to the page so Google, or users those without javascrpt enabled, has a path to access more product listings. If you like you can set those paginated category pages to noindex,follow so they do not get indexed, but Google can still crawl them to find deeper products.
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I have never heard of any negative aspects on SEO when using lazy load... our shop has nearly 100.000 products and we use lazy load as well... we recently could raise the numbers of indexed pages form 5.5 mio. to 6.7 mio. ... so this is just an example but to answer your question from my personal point of view: the answer would be no
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