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URGENT: Google index conflict w/xstore filter

This topic has 4 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 1 years, 11 months ago ago by Olga Barlow

Bas Kling

Participant

May 18, 2022 at 14:24

Hi,

For some months now, our production site is very poorly ranked. After troubleshooting we found that Google considers all category pages using a filter (on price & other taxonomies) as conflicts.
We need to have the following filters tagged as noindex:

?min_price
?max_price
?filter_brand

This would solve our immediate problem. To make this sustainable, perhaps you could consider adding functionality to the template to help users identify and tag certain taxonomy filters to prevent indexing and improve overall SEO. I’ll submit a feature request for the same.

Please use our staging site to implement the change. Our web developer keeps track of changes for version control and as such, its inadvisable to work directly in the production environment.

Please, contact administrator
for this information.

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3 Answers

Olga Barlow

Support staff

May 19, 2022 at 16:59

Hello,

Point is that these quesrtied are default WooCommerce plugin queries, you can find them even with the default Storefront theme what you filter by price for example https://prnt.sc/8mQrXVZVQN4z
Your developer may try solution described here to add nofollow for the price and brand filter https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38392686/woocommerce-seo-noindex-order-by-archive

Regards

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Bas Kling

Participant

May 20, 2022 at 14:23

The code voor the noindex filter is old (2017) and doesn’t really work. The noindex is only added when the top filter (popularity/newest/price) is set, but not when the left side taxonomy filter is used.

Looking at trying canonical URLs, Woocommerce nor Yoast offer any solution to declare those sufficiently. Google, however, indexes all generated URLs with filters all the same.

On different forums it is suggested that the theme developer may be able to suggest some code to replace or implement canonical URLs such as the parent category page. When that happens, those filter URLs should drop off in Google in favour of of the main category page, thus preventing indexing duplicate content…

Is that something worth trying?

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Olga Barlow

Support staff

May 23, 2022 at 15:59

Hello,

Take my apologies for the delay in answering. If you want to play with the canonical URL you may try https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Here is example of using this on our demo https://prnt.sc/VfKG0IJc3HZj

Regards

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