How Collection List Pagination Works

Resources

Mentioned in this video-

• ‍Finsweet's Chrome Extensions and the Unbind CMS candy.

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In Webflow, when you have a paginated Collection List on a page, and you navigate to page 2 of that paginated list, the URL reflects that.

For example;

_{/my-page-with-a-list}

... becomes something like;
_{/my-page-with-a-list?34j5hkj2sdf_page=2}

That strange-looking ID is Webflow's internal way of tracking that Collection List, so that when it loads your webpage, it knows which Collection List page you want displayed for each Collection List.

You can have up to 20 Collection Lists per page, which means, potentially, you could have 20 querystring parameters like that.

How this Affects SEO

It doesn't.

First, these querystring variations are completely fine.

Google will find them, and if it chooses to, it will navigate them page by page, and index them. But that's a good thing. More SERPs for you.

Webflow also focuses attention on the main page which contains that collection list, by;

1. Sitemap.xml only contains that main page, and not the variants with the pagination querystring params.
2. All of those subpages have a Canonical link pointing to that main page, so Google is effectively told "this here is the main page to index."

You might see those funky looking results in Google Search results but that's a Good Thing. Set your designer OCD tendencies aside and embrace the way the web works.

Further Notes

Webflow's Collection List Limit and Pagination features are different.

Limit truncates the list, with no ability to page to the next set of N items.

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