Episode 74

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6th Jul 2020

The One Where We Discuss How To Get Pagination Right With Patrick Stox

This week, Sarah and Hannah chat to Patrick Stox, product adviser, technical SEO and brand advisor at Ahrefs, who also organises multiple SEO events including Raleigh SEO Meetup, Beer and SEO Meetup and Findability Conference.

They discuss beer, clean sheets and the hosts find out that Patrick loves musicals, would happily give up his phone and would rather live in a space ship rather than a submarine. 

They also find out about his career and how he first started off as a developer, and then his boss asked if he wanted to learn SEO and the rest is history.

Patrick was invited on the podcast to talk about pagination after Hannah came across a blog Patrick wrote all about how SEOs are breaking pagination and how to get it right.

They discuss everything from how the implementation of rel=prev/next has changed to whether pagination is important and debunking pagination conspiracies to crawl paths and making sure everything is discovered on a website.

Of course there is a feature and Patrick technically tries to cheat, but quizmaster Sarah is having none of it.

Where to find Patrick

Website - https://patrickstox.com/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/patrickstox

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickstox

Ahrefs Contributor - https://ahrefs.com/blog/author/patrick-stox/

Search Engine Land Contributor - https://searchengineland.com/author/patrick-stox

Marketing Land Contributor - https://marketingland.com/author/patrick-stox

Resources

Pagination blog

Show artwork for The SEO SAS Podcast

About the Podcast

The SEO SAS Podcast
Your go to SEO podcast
Whether you think SEO is important or not, you will after this.

SEO SAS (special answering service) is a podcast that delves into individual SEO issues each week.

Hosts Sarah McDowell and Hannah Bryce are two feisty females who love everything SEO. Each week they answer FAQs and provide real-life examples of SEO quandaries alongside handy tips and solutions, in a way that’s easily accessible to everyone.

From SEO novices and dabbling marketing managers, to SEO experts who enjoy listening to passionate debates about the best ways to do SEO, listeners will learn something and laugh... a lot!

About your hosts

Sarah McDowell

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I've been in Digital Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for around 10 years, currently working as the SEO Manager at Captivate (part of Global), the world's only growth-orientated podcast host. I am a self-confessed SEO nerd (I find the industry fascinated and love learning how search engines like Google work) and a bit of a podcast addict (with this being the fourth podcast I have hosted). I am also a speaker and trainer. I hope you enjoy this podcast!

Hannah Bryce

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Seriously Excited about Optimisations (is this not my online dating profile?). I love everything SEO, especially a good SEO analogy. SEO Manager by day, at the weekends, when I’m not with Sarah in our podcasting and SEO bubble, you’ll probably find me (literally) with my head in the clouds, up a mountain - with my husband Dom (who hopefully ignores the bit about a dating profile). Cat mum, vegan baker and aspiring photographer in what’s left of my spare time ✌🏻