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Faceted Navigation or Parameter Crawl Trap on Wix

URL parameters create a near-infinite number of crawlable URLs (faceted navigation, sort orders, filters). This wastes crawl budget and can cause duplicate content.

Issue ID: CRAWL-PARAM-TRAP-001Severity: majorEffort: M

Why this matters

URL parameters create a near-infinite number of crawlable URLs (faceted navigation, sort orders, filters). This wastes crawl budget and can cause duplicate content. This affects how clearly search engines understand the page and how persuasive it looks in search results.

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How to fix this on Wix

Use page settings and editor sections first.

  1. 1Find the relevant page or site setting.
  2. 2Apply the change in Wix Editor.
  3. 3Publish and validate the result.

After you fix it

  • ✓Confirm parameter URLs are handled via canonical tags or disallowed in robots.txt

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Fix faceted navigation or parameter crawl trap on a different CMS

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