Title tag and url for paging, which is good?

Question

Hello.

I have a page which has 3 pages First page; Url: ex.com/my-good-page Title tag: My Good Page

Second page Option 1: url: ex.com/my-good-page/2 Title tag: My Good Page - 2 => Added page number

Option 2: url: ex.com/my-good-page?page=2 Title tag: My Good Page => No change

I don't know which one to choose between option 1 and 2. Title tag should be unique. Is it still good for paging? So I should choose option 1?

Could you give me advise?

Answer 1

I would use...

http://example.com/my-good-page-2 http://example.com/my-good-page/2

Answer 2

Personnaly I would chose the first option, I think it allow to "split" the content better. It is easier to read site/article/page than site/article?page=number, also the htacess rule will be easier with site/article/page.

My last point is that choosing to use site/article syntax is to go away from the old GET syntax (for many reasons, seo, aestetic, etc), so by puttin ?page=1 it looks like you don't know what you want.

Answer 3

I thought option 1 was good. But, I want google search give the first page result on top not the page 2~.. And I found popular sites are using option 2. This confused me.

SEOChat.com uses option 2 approach. ?pp=12 with the same title tag.

Stackoverflow, which got popular rapidly, also use ?page=2&sort=name approach.

I heard Option 1 was good, but I found popular sites use option 2!

Any opinion?