The topic of faceted navigation is bound to come up at some point in your SEO career. It's a common solution to product filtering for e-commerce sites, but managing it on the SEO side can quickly spin out of control with the potential to cause indexing bloat and crawl errors. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we welcome our friend Sergey Stefoglo to give us a quick refresher on just what faceted nav is and why it matters, then dive into a few key solutions that can help you tame it.
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Video Transcription
Hey, Moz fans. My name is Serge. I'm from Distilled. I work at the Seattle office as a consultant. For those of you that don't know about Distilled, we're a full-service digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, but have branched out since to work on all sorts of things like content, PR, and recently a split testing tool, ODN.
Today I'm here to talk to you guys about faceted navigation, just the basics. We have a few minutes today, so I'm just going to cover kind of the 101 version of this. But essentially we're going to go through what the definition is, why we should care as SEOs, why it's important, what are some options we have with this, and then also what a solution could look like.
1. What is faceted navigation?
For those that don't know, faceted navigation is essentially something like this, probably a lot nicer than this to be honest. But it's essentially a page that allows you to filter down or allows a user to filter down based on what they're looking for. So this is an example we have here of a