I have been struggling with this question a while. I think it's pretty good, but I think it could be even better.
So for one of my clients the category pagination shows 12 products.
On the bottom after those 12 it shows a "show more button" on or example: /mens-watches
After clicking 12 more watches emerge to view, below that it will again show a button for show more and so on. All these pages have a self-canonical and are treated as such by google.
I check in GSC.
/mens-watches
/mens-watches?page=2
/mens-watches?page=3
All indexed, all fine.
at ?page-4 and 5 (with all categories) I see a pattern of these url's not getting pick up, maybe because of crawldepth? There's only 5-6 pages per category give or take.
My simple mind says: well, just double the products per page and done.
But for the mid-long run a different approach would be better?
So for one of my clients the category pagination shows 12 products.
On the bottom after those 12 it shows a "show more button" on or example: /mens-watches
After clicking 12 more watches emerge to view, below that it will again show a button for show more and so on. All these pages have a self-canonical and are treated as such by google.
I check in GSC.
/mens-watches
/mens-watches?page=2
/mens-watches?page=3
All indexed, all fine.
at ?page-4 and 5 (with all categories) I see a pattern of these url's not getting pick up, maybe because of crawldepth? There's only 5-6 pages per category give or take.
My simple mind says: well, just double the products per page and done.
But for the mid-long run a different approach would be better?
