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A store where filters ate the crawl budget

Faceted navigation had generated hundreds of thousands of near-duplicate URLs, and crawlers were spending their attention on filter combinations nobody searches for.

Before: A store where filters ate the crawl budget
After: A store where filters ate the crawl budget
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A store where filters ate the crawl budget

Facet rules, canonicals and a decision about which combinations deserve indexing

Illustration, not a client job

E-commerce SEO Retail 5 weeks

Technique
Facet rules, canonicals and a decision about which combinations deserve indexing
Industry
Retail
Turnaround
5 weeks
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