Facet Values as Anchor text
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Hi
I've reviewing our internal linking structure & have found that the facets/filter buttons on a category, are crawled and have anchor text to each link, for example:
The anchor text to filter the product listing results by those under £50 would be:
| Facet Value Less than £50.00 (15) Less than £50.00 (15) |
This also has the source URL & destination URL of http://www.key.co.uk/en/key/lockers
I haven't come across this before - is this an issue?
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Hi John,
Thank you for your answer
If I check in search console, we aren't getting more pages indexed than we have on the site. I'll have a read of your article.
I only noticed these in screaming frog. Are there any other checks you think I need to do?
Becky
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Hi Becky! Thanks for your question!
I wouldn't be so concerned about what that anchor text says as the fact that your filters are being crawled and indexed. This can be a huge duplicate content issue. I wrote about it here a few years ago - http://www.johnfdoherty.com/facets-filters-considerations-ecommerce/
You should investigate if this is causing more pages than you have on your site to be indexed, which can be quite bad for your site's organic traffic. Sounds like you're a pretty good SEO already, so let me know if you need some pointers on doing this!
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