# The effect of endless scrolling = Bad for Google / SEO

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2014 年2 月 24 日 21:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034 "2014-02-24T21:45:24Z")\
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作者： ![katie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/katie/32/114266_2.png) [@katie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/katie)\
发布日期： [2014 年2 月 24 日 21:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-effect-of-endless-scrolling-bad-for-google-seo/13034/1 "2014-02-24T21:45:24Z")

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Hi, I’ve been involved in SEO for several years since 2007 and been following Google and its changes every year with all the changes and algorithm they’ve brought like Penguin, Hummingbird, and Panda.

But has Discourse thought about the infinite scroll feature? which makes it hard for Google to crawl pages with such feature, hence it will affect your rank and most likely your traffic, if you tend to use discourse for a big community. How is Discourse team managing this when it comes to endless scrolling and sitemap ?

> **[Making Infinite Scrolling Websites More Search Friendly](http://www.esoftload.info/making-infinite-scrolling-websites-search-friendly)**
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> Apparently, infinite scrolling is the latest trend in the SEO market with webmaster incessantly developing infinite scrolling on their webpage. With popular social media sites like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Facebook embracing the infinite scrolling...

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