#It depends on the goal of your blog,
rich pivot
It will be on the homepage. My goal is to document my learning process and encourage me to stay on track with my development process, teach people where possible, highlight subjects to learn, and review the importance of learning certain technologies.
So for example, if I make a special javascript animation? It'll get posted. If I do a course online and I think it's good, I'll post about it.
SEO is of importance, so stereotypical pagination might arguably be better?
halcyon ice
SEO is better with pagination indeed... But there's also a 'Load More' button to combat that (if I'm correct)
But if you think about your structure, since it's your learning process. The 'timeline' plays a big role
Maybe check how sites like Patreon do this, where artist share their updates chronologically
See techcrunch for example
Their load more
Is basicallt some sort of pagination, except that we can't specifically navigate to a specific page
But in news recency is one of the most important things
So the structure is often publish date
With the extra layer of topics
rich pivot
yeah I may do the load more approach, but even then I wonder if there would be a slight advantage with SEO, with proper pages since you can cache it easier (I could be wrong)
it feels less jarring potentially
halcyon ice
Possibly, though for mobile use this may have quite poor usability
Google themselves also use 'load more' on mobile
Though I guess they don't have to worry about their SEO haha
rich pivot
haha very true. must be nice
you have a good point about mobile use
what I might do, is the load more approach but later create a separate page with a whole list of my posts (just by title and date). a sort of site map
I won't have enough posts to worry about the inefficiencies of the load more approach for a good while anyway
halcyon ice
Yeah probably look at some things others do for inspiration
I work at a news organization doing research to these kind of things (not specifically SEO though)
So if you're curious about some patterns you can always discussed. I A/B test the hell out of them 🥸
Funny enough most traffic (of returning users at least) isn't from google
THough new users definitely
rich pivot
thank you!! oh that's interesting. hm, what is it from if not google? referrals?
halcyon ice
thank you!! oh that's interesting. hm, what is it from if not google? referrals?
Newsletters
Google is still a top 3 source though