[GUIDE] Split your Blogger Posts into multiple posts (Pagenation)
Lets look at the reasons for splitting your posts up.
Paginating a blog post is a contentious subject, believe it or not. Some people hate it; they feel like it disrupts the user experience. They find that users skip the “next page” button and feel like the post ends abruptly. This isn’t helped by the fact that many sites for years have used pagination as a way to squeeze out more ad views, by making thin slideshows with 20 images and single-paragraph “pages” and forcing the pages – and ads – to reload every time. These days when I see a site like that I look for a “view as one page” link and, if I don’t find it, I take a good long look to decide if it’s really worth the hassle of paging through.
On the other hand, some people really love pagination. It has some benefits, like theincreased ad revenue if you use it tastefully.
It helps you divide up lengthy content into smaller, digestible chunks. You can even organize those pages and make a table of contents, like How Stuff Works does.
It helps fluff the number of pageviews recorded on your site, which can make it more valuable to potential buyers if you’re selling the site, or advertisers if you’re trying to get into a new ad network.
It helps maintain a consistent look across your site if you regularly publish content of varying lengths. You can paginate every 1,000 or so words, so shorter posts have just one page and longer posts have 2-3 or more. Just make sure your “next page” button is clear and not buried among social media buttons or placed beneath ads.
It helps make Google Analytics more accurate by differentiating between a bounce and a “read the article then left” one-page visit that Analytics is forced to record as a bounce. The second page load gives a second point to the user’s session and allows Analytics to record more accurate data.
Of the four, I would consider the last to be the most important. It’s almost a good enough reason to paginate a site that doesn’t need it. Thankfully, there are other ways to solve that problem that don’t involve changing site structure, so I’ll content myself with those for now.
On the other hand, some people really love pagination. It has some benefits, like theincreased ad revenue if you use it tastefully.
It helps you divide up lengthy content into smaller, digestible chunks. You can even organize those pages and make a table of contents, like How Stuff Works does.
It helps fluff the number of pageviews recorded on your site, which can make it more valuable to potential buyers if you’re selling the site, or advertisers if you’re trying to get into a new ad network.
It helps maintain a consistent look across your site if you regularly publish content of varying lengths. You can paginate every 1,000 or so words, so shorter posts have just one page and longer posts have 2-3 or more. Just make sure your “next page” button is clear and not buried among social media buttons or placed beneath ads.
It helps make Google Analytics more accurate by differentiating between a bounce and a “read the article then left” one-page visit that Analytics is forced to record as a bounce. The second page load gives a second point to the user’s session and allows Analytics to record more accurate data.
Of the four, I would consider the last to be the most important. It’s almost a good enough reason to paginate a site that doesn’t need it. Thankfully, there are other ways to solve that problem that don’t involve changing site structure, so I’ll content myself with those for now.
How to split long blog post in Blogger into multiple pages
Step 1: Usually you will edit your post in compose mode, but this time you are going to do this in HTML mode. Switch to HTML editor, add the span element that you see below and add your blog content in each element respectively. From the below lines you can see that only 1st page content is visible and the remaining 2nd, 3rd and 4th pages are hidden. So the remaining pages will be visible only if the visitor navigates.
Step 2: Hope you have added your content. Now you have to create page links so when a user clicks on that page he or she should get that particular content. Just below to the above code add this one which adds Pages: 1 2 3 4 links below your post content.
Step 3: Next to make this links to work add the following script just below the pagination links.
That’s it! When everything is done publish your article and view it where you will see page links below the content. Just click on the links to see how it works. Hope that helped you to split long blog posts in Blogger into multiple pages. Got any questions? Feel free to ask below in comments section.
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