Infinite Scroll and URL Changing

[mattdinbrooklyn]

Hi,

So my website is having an issue indexing. Much like other sports sites like ESPN or MLB or a variety of others my site changes the URL as you go down the page. So if you go on a news article and continue scrolling you'll go to another news article. I believe that this is creating errors in Search Console with the article being given an error of being "too long". I don't know how to keep this infinite scroll and url changing which increases my pageviews and eliminate the errors. Can someone help?

[mattdinbrooklyn]

I see that they're duplicating their indexing as well. I'm curious if they're getting the same error.

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[OlegKorneitchouk]

Can we see example of the search console error?

Here is a news site that does it well so maybe study their code? http://qz.com/723397/the-incredible-things-that-had-to-go-just-right-for-juno-to-reach-jupiter/

[mattdinbrooklyn]

Thanks Matt, while that post is good in the information my problem with John Mueller's analysis is that it doesn't pertain to news pages that the URL changing as it goes down the page and not in parameters (as in Mueller's example). Is there an example that has the URL change not using parameters? I'm curious about the link= rel="next" code (see below) and if that needs to be added.

[MattRoney]

Hey Matt! Did Oleg answer your question? Or could you use more help?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Here is how to do it properly: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/02/infinite-scroll-search-friendly.html

Demo: http://scrollsample.appspot.com/items