What is Faceted Navigation?
Filter URLs (color, size, price) that multiply crawlable combinations. Controls include noindexing thin facets, canonicalizing to parents, and parameter handling in Search Console.
Related terms
URL Parameter
Query-string values (?sort=price) that create crawlable URL variants. Parameters expand URL space and slow rendering queues, so audits decide per parameter: crawl, canonicalize, or block.
Duplicate Content
Substantively identical content at multiple URLs, from facets, parameters, or syndication. Diagnose the pattern (template, locale, pagination) before prescribing canonicals or consolidation.
Crawl Budget
The number of pages a search engine will crawl on a site in a given period, driven by server capacity and demand signals. Large or slow sites must spend it on indexable, valuable URLs.
Technical SEO
The crawling, indexing, rendering, and performance work that lets search engines reach, understand, and serve your pages. It covers directives, architecture, speed, and structured data rather than words on the page.
Crawling
How search-engine bots discover pages by following links, sitemaps, and directives. If a URL is never crawled, it cannot be indexed no matter how good its content is.
Indexing
Storing and organizing crawled pages so they can be retrieved for queries. Indexing is selective: crawled does not mean indexed, and indexed does not mean ranking.