Environment: All
Hawksearch Versions: V4.0 and V4.0L
The Facets Followed by Spiders section of Hawksearch SEO Influencer allows you to specify which facets should be crawled by spiders and the depth of the facets (only for nested scenarios) that should be crawled.
Our SEO Influencer tool currently doesn’t used to not limit how many facet values per facet should be considered for sitemap creation. This was not an issue as most of our customers don’t have a long list of facet values. However, one of our newer clients, PCAOB, has thousands of facet values and sitemap creation process for this customer gets hung.
With February 2022 release we have made the following changes:
UI changes
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Add Added a Max # of Values per Facet column that will allow to limit the number of facet values from each facet that we will use for sitemap building.
Please note: this column should not be editable for clients and would be a read/display only. Also, a system parameter was created to internally control the limit.
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Changes that Impact Different Facet Types
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a. Non-nested facets
For For non-nested facets the max # of facet values per facet should be is applied at the facet level.
E.g. if max # of facet values per facet for Color facet is 5, we will only use the first 5 facet values for sitemap building.
Example:
Let’s look at Vendor Name facet on Reinders page as an example:
the Brand facet shown below. Only the first 5 facet values will be used for the sitemap building:
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b. Nested facets
For For nested facets (both nested links and nested checkbox types) we need to account are accounting for max # of facet values per facet AND Max Depth. E.g. if
Example:
If max # of facet values per facet for Color Department facet is 2, and max depth is set to 2, we will have to account for 2x2=4 variations that will be used for sitemap building.
Let’s look at Reinders page as an example:
https://www.reinders.com/search/?keyword=lawn#keyword=lawn&category=1%7CIrrigation,1%7CTurf_Landscaping
Department 0 = Category Department/Subcategory 1 = Irrigation Camp & Hike
Department/Subcategory 2 = Turn/Landscaping Kids
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Depth = 2 means that we will be using just Irrigation and Turn/Landscaping Camp & Hike and Kids subcategories for sitemap building.
max # of facet values per facet = 2 means that we will use the first two facet values from each of those subcategories:
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c. Accounting for Dynamic SEO Elements
Our customers have an option to add Canonical URLs :
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The canonical URL logic should follow the limits as well if Canonical URLs and Landing Pages
Canonical URLs can be specified within Landing Pages settings:
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The canonical URL logic follows the limits as well. If a facet value is not going to be included into the sitemap, the canonical should URL will point back to the main landing page when the facet is selected.
The title, meta description, and meta keywords logic of the page should also will honor the limits as well.
Example Canonical Link:
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d. Swatches, Range/Open Range, and Slider Facets
Swatches, rangesrange/open range facets are included in sitemap building.
Sliders are ignored from not included in sitemap building as we don’t return facet values for sliders.
e. Facet boosting and Visibility Rules
Boosting and visibility rules on a facet facets are not respected for sitemap building.
Documentation:
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Hawksearch Version (Lucene, ES, Both)? Both
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Dashboard REST API Version required? n/a
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Search API version required? n/a
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If Lucene what front end version does client account need to be set to for getting properties in JSON: n/a
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For ES what version of API has this available: n/a
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For ES only: Indexing API version required: n/a
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How is this feature enabled? AdditionalFeatures (described below), list of facet follow list needs to be defined to otherwise sitemap is not generated.
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Feature Flag on System Parameters: AdditionalFeatures needs to contain 'seoImpact'
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Is this available to all customers? yes
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Requires any Customizations ? if so please detail them in the document: no
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If related to Recommendations: what is the minimum Recommendations API version required? n/a
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Tracking Dependencies if any and what is the tracking API version or tracking method (JS, API): n/a
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taken into consideration for sitemap building.