- π¬π§United Kingdom mbatterton
Patch #5 works very nicely for facets 3.0 as well. We find this quite important for SEO and helps Google to stop crawling pages that have facet queries in the URL. This is dispite facet links do already have nofollow on each link apparently this is not enough.
- πΊπΈUnited States uotonyh
Added patch #5 to version 2.0.6 due to crawlers recursing into links used for the autocomplete widget.
We do want the page to be indexed ONCE, but bots are not smart, and they will just keep going.
Part of the problem is how the autocomplete builds on itself. With zero terms, the links look like this:
"urls": { "history": "/majors?f[0]=search:history", "culture": "/majors?f[0]=search:culture", ... }
If I look for 'philosophy' then the autocomplete URLs look like this:
"urls": { "history": "/majors?f[0]=search:history&f[1]=search:philosophy", "culture": "/majors?f[0]=search:culture&f[1]=search:philosophy", ... }
And the crawler will just keep going.
- Status changed to Needs work
9 months ago 8:36am 14 October 2023 - π©πͺGermany mkalkbrenner π©πͺ
This behavior needs to be configurable.
We use facet blocks as menus and want the search engine to follow the links. - π¬π§United Kingdom danharper
Looking for this feature in 3.x
We're getting hammered by bots hitting un cached pages with various combinations of facets that rarely get used.