WordPress nextpage quick tag

I was just checking out JT Pratt’s page on using the nextpage tag in WordPress. You can checkout the his post at making more money blogging wordpress hacks using nextpage.

JT gives a rather straight forward use of the multi-page toolkit plugin. Well, I’m not the biggest fan of plugins. I like to keep the number down unless it is something I just can’t put into the theme. Further, I didn’t have great success using the plugin. The plugin homepage instructions just weren’t that helpful for a php noob like me :D.

Anyways….I had been using the <!––nextpage––> within a couple of weeks into WordPress. One one of my sites I like to post ebooks of old outdated books that have great information in them. Books like, “The science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles.” Using the nextpage quick tag in wordpress is great for breaking up information especially for long material like ebooks and multipart posts such as tutorials.

Since I don’t use a plugin I have developed a simple way to maximize the nextpage tag. Simply put the <!––nextpage––> in the html source view where you want the next page. . . . duh.

That will give you the pages at the bottom of each page. Nothing exciting and search engines aren’t that great at picking these up. So, what to do? Well, we need a little “table of contents” somewhere, especially on the first page! I like to put it on every page either at the top or the bottom. This helps the user get around a lot better and helps the search engine crawl your content and index it ;).

How do we do it? Simple, just make link list for each page and put the keywords you want for each just like you would for any link. Nothing difficult about it at all. Then copy that list of links (your table of contents) and past it before the nextpage tag, if you want the TOC to be at the end of your page, or paste it just after the nextpage, if you want it at the top.

This does several things for you:

• It gives user a clear jump to navigation.
• It gives more crawl opportunities for search engines.
• It allows you to put keyword rich content pointing to your pages

Now the plugin JT recommends adds a couple more functions. It allows you to change the header title, I think. . . as I said I didn’t have much luck with it. If you can master it knock your socks off and let me know because I’m obviously brick dense!

Start using the <!––nextpage––> quicktag! No one likes a massive long post! Especially me!