Support "prev" and "next" link tags in head
IsaacSchemm opened this issue · comments
Link tags in the <head> section with rel="next" and rel="prev" can be used to show how pages are related. Google uses this to help with giving the most relevant search result. They're also supported in the SeaMonkey browser's website navigation toolbar. Since this theme handles navigation and is aware of previous/next relationships, it would be nice if the theme could insert these tags too.
There are also some other properties (rel="top", rel="up", rel="first", rel="last") that SeaMonkey supports, but I don't think anyone else uses them anymore.
Hi @IsaacSchemm,
Nice idea, although I am concerned how it should be implemented or even if it should be at all.
From the Google guide "to indicate the relationship between component URLs in a paginated series."
AFAIK from my quick research, this feature is to show proper relation between subset of the same content. Like pieces of the same the cake should be linked together with next/prev piece. But each whole article is a cake on its own.
In real world good examples, the instructables have very long articles where you can page-by-page click it over, but you have also one single view-it-all page link.
In the end, if we chain all pages together with rel next/prev, then Google and other html meta consumers will think that whole site is one single article sliced into the pieces, which is not really intended.
P.S. To ease out navigation for user, I would rather consider adding keyboard shortcuts 😉
OK, that makes sense!