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title: "Should I Block Faceted Navigation URLs or Let Search Engines Crawl Them?"  
description: "Should I Block Faceted Navigation URLs or Let Search Engines Crawl Them?"  
author: "Gunnar Þórsson"  
published: 2026-10-17  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/117780/should-i-block-faceted-navigation-urls-or-let-search-engines-crawl-them  
category: "Mix Category"  
tags: ["seo", "ecommerce", "Technical SEO"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Should I Block Faceted Navigation URLs or Let Search Engines Crawl Them?

Our online store has filters for size, color, and price, and each combination creates another URL. Some filtered pages are useful to shoppers, but most have very little distinct content. For **faceted navigation URLs**, how do you decide which ones should remain crawlable, which should be canonicalized, and whether robots.txt blocking could create problems?


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