Blocking query parameters

Hi Maike,

According to this research, it is advised to block those in some scenarios.

Using a faceted navigation can prove extremely useful for consumers looking for specific products within your website, but you need to ensure that any URLs generated as a result of filters being applied don’t hold back the performance of your original category pages in organic search results.

The SEO Framework has a built in filter to add that specific line you mentioned :).

This is the filter:

add_filter( 'the_seo_framework_robots_disallow_queries', '__return_true' );

I hope this helps! ??

Hi Sybre,

thanks for your detailed answer. A very interesting article. I

t seems that Woocommerce (? or the SEO Framework) automatically sets a canonical URL. So I think the filter is actually not needed.

Have a nice evening!
Maike

Hi Maike,

That’s correct, it’s The SEO Framework. And it’s done for the reasons given in that article. This slipped my mind :).

It only adds them back for translation URLs, like with WPML and qTranslate X (and Polylang is planned).

Thanks! ??