Facet pages beyond the SEO limits still answer 200
The Facets SEO limits in the SuiteCommerce configuration decide how many facet groups and values a crawlable link may combine. They work only by not linking to deeper combinations in the prerendered page: nothing adds noindex, and those URLs still answer 200 — so one link from anywhere puts a combination nobody meant to publish into the index.
Updated · By the SuiteAnalytics team
What we detect
We request a facet combination beyond the configured limits and report it when it answers 200 with a canonical to itself. The defaults allow two facet groups and two values, and treat page and keywords as options that stay in the canonical.
How to fix it
Decide what you want for these combinations, then choose one of two tools per pattern — they do different jobs:
- To consolidate them into the category, make sure each carries a canonical pointing at the category — and do not also disallow them in robots.txt, because a disallowed URL is never fetched and its canonical is never read.
- To stop crawlers spending time on them, disallow the facet path or parameter pattern in robots.txt.
In NetSuite: Commerce > Websites > Configuration › Shopping Catalog › Facets SEO Oracle documentation
In NetSuite: Commerce > Hosting > Website Hosting Files, the robots.txt file in the site's hosting root folder Oracle documentation
Questions
- Do Facets SEO limits add noindex to SuiteCommerce facet pages?
- No. They only stop the prerendered page from linking to combinations beyond the limits. Requested directly, those pages still answer 200 and can be indexed.