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Problems with WooCommerce Product Attribute Filter URL's
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I am running a WordPress/WooCommerce site for a client, and Moz is picking up some issues with URL's generated from WooCommerce product attribute filters. For example:
..co.uk/womens-prescription-glasses/?filter_gender=mens&filter_style=full-rim&filter_shape=oval
How do I get Google to ignore these filters?
I am running Yoast Premium, but not sure if this can solve the issue? Product categories are canonicalised to the root category URL.Any suggestions very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Bob
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You can tell Google what URL parameters to ignore in Google Search Console. It's under Crawl > URL Parameters > Configure URL Parameters. Google does advise to use caution when changing how Google bot handles the parameters.
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If you got canonicals set up properly, not much else you can do. Google should recognize what you are trying to do but it will still crawl the filters.
If you don't want the subcategories indexed and crawls minimized:
- nofollow filter links
- block them via robots using wildcards
- set to noindex for all filtered urls.
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