May Faceted Navigation via ajax #parameter cause duplicated content issues?
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We are going to implement a faceted navigation for an ecommerce site of about 1000 products.
Faceted navigation is implemented via ajax/javascript which adds to the URL a large number of #parameters.
Faceted pages are canonicalizing to page without any parameters.We do not want google to index any of the faceted pages at this point.
Will google include pages with #parameters in their index?
Can I tell google somehow to ignore #parameters and not to index them?
Could this setup cause any SEO problems for us in terms of crawl bandwidth and or link equity? -
You can control parameter handling in Google Search Console and direct Google explicitly how to treat parameters.
If Google deems a parameter page worthy of being indexed it will index. But if you edit the parameter handling in GSC as mentioned above, they will usually/always follow that.
If you get links to a parameter URL and it canonicalizes to the non-parameter, that link equity should flow just find to the non-param page. Triple check meta robots, robots.txt, canonicalization setting to be sure.