Issue with excessive crawling of filtered URLs by Googlebot
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Hello,
I am experiencing an issue with excessive crawling of filtered pages on my website by Googlebot, which is causing a significant load on the server. My website is using the WoodMart theme, and it appears that product filters (such as those with parameters in the URL, e.g. ?filter_category=…&filter_vintage=…) are dynamically generated using AJAX. However, Googlebot seems to treat these dynamically generated URLs as separate pages and is indexing them, leading to a high number of requests and server load.
Could you help me resolve this issue? Specifically, I want to ensure that Googlebot only crawls the main pages and does not index every possible filter combination. Is there anything within WoodMart or any optimization that can be implemented to mitigate this issue?
Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Hello,
The URLs you mentioned are actually generated and managed by WooCommerce, not by the WoodMart theme. Our theme does not control how these URLs are indexed or crawled by search engines.
You can confirm this by temporarily disabling the AJAX filters or switching to a default WordPress theme — you’ll notice that the same behavior persists.
WoodMart provides an AJAX-based filtering experience for users; it does not influence how those URLs are interpreted or crawled by Google.
Best Regards,
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