E-commerce Wiki Entry

Faceted Navigation

Filter and sort options on category pages that generate multiple URL combinations.

Faceted navigation creates near-infinite URL combinations through filter selections, posing crawl budget and duplicate content challenges. Solutions include canonicalising parameter URLs to clean category pages, blocking faceted parameters via robots.txt or noindex, and selectively allowing crawl on high-value facets that satisfy genuine search demand.

Related Entries

Canonical URL

The preferred version of a page when duplicate or similar content exists.

Crawl Budget

The number of pages a search engine will crawl on a site within a given period.

URL Parameter Handling

Strategies for managing URL parameters that affect content or session state.

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