Susan's Blogging Blog, by Susan Gunelius, Thursday February 25, 2010
Last week, Blogger rolled out Auto Pagination, which automates the amount of content that is displayed on Blogger blog pages based on the amount of HTML and and images on each page. Google claimed that the purpose behind the change is to speed page load time. For example, with the new Auto Pagination feature, a Blogger blog might be limited to only display two posts per page if those posts include a lot of images. Visitors would need to click on the Next Post link to view additional posts from the blog.
While the change is unlikely to affect a lot of smaller bloggers, it has caused concern from larger bloggers, particularly those who use Blogger for photo blogs or blogs that are image-intensive, such as celebrity fan bloggers.
Many of the Blogger users who found their blogs suddenly altered to display only a couple of posts per page blogged about the new Blogger Auto Pagination feature in order to complain about the change. According to some of the more vocal bloggers, they were able to email Google and work with them to modify their blogs so the Auto Pagination feature doesn't affect their blogs. If you use Blogger and dislike the Auto Pagination feature, be sure to contact Blogger support and voice your concerns.
Has the new Blogger Auto Pagination function affected your blog or any of the blogs that you read? Leave a comment and share your experiences.
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I hate how it is limiting my posts, and photographs. I feel like if someone is going to pop into my blog and have a browse, they will only see 10 posts and barely get an idea of what my blog is about. I feel the same way about others' blogs. I like to see quite a bit of what they have blogged, so I can see if I want to subscribe or not... if there is not enough there I won't take the time to look at their older posts. I'd rather wait for pics to download and see more! I think google should at least allow a month's worth of blogging to display- this is a mistake and I hope google switches it back.
ReplyDeleteIf anybody find a way to fix it, please let me know.
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I feel like Lara, my blog (www.bajerblog.blogspot.com) is not as interesting to others when only 50 images can be shown on the front page.
ReplyDeleteHow do I write Google and tell them as it says in the "article" above?
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Kristian
hear hear - hate it! this time they really might finally drive me to switch to wordpress. honestly blogger is the only thing connected with my google toys that I don't absolutely love - why can't they be as good at it as they are at everything else!?!!?!?
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