Posted by amilenkov on Fri, May 02, 2025 - 8:35am

Hello,

I'm asking for help with advice on how to solve the following problem:

In a page created using Views, I created an exposed filter that allows filtering nodes that contain a selected value in an integer field of the nodes in this view. It's a product characteristic expressed as a number.

For site visitors, this works fine, but Google sees many different pages with a different URL, corresponding to each of the numeric values ​​allowed in the field. The problem is that for all these different pages / urls, the search engine finds the same title and meta description, which is a problem for optimizing the site (SEO).

I suppose that this is a problem that is common when using exposed filters and probably a solution has been found long ago, but I can't think of a working system of settings that would fix the problem.

I would be grateful for any guidance or idea for finding a solution.

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Thanks again. The advice helped me with a little extra help from Chat GPT:

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Use AJAX: Yes

Comments

Fri, May 02, 2025 - 8:47am by yorkshirepudding

Have you tried using AJAX for the filters so the page loads once?

Another option is the submodule of Metatag - Metatag Views - you can set the canonical url

Fri, May 02, 2025 - 8:48am by yorkshirepudding

You can also add View arguments for that might help too.

Fri, May 02, 2025 - 9:37am by amilenkov

The problem is that I use both Metatag and SEO Meta Tags in this website, as the second module offers a very convenient and easy way to work with meta tags in Views (especially when it comes to Open Graph) and I have found in practice that the simultaneous operation of SEO Meta Tags and Metatag Views causes problems with duplicate meta tags that I avoid by setting up metadata in Views only through SEO Meta Tags.

I could deactivate SEO Meta Tags and activate Metatag Views but I have many available publications from the last three years and I have to write over them as meta tags again if I deactivate SEO Meta Tags.

I will look for information on how to use AJAX for the filters or View arguments - this seems like a more accessible solution to me.

Thank you very much.

Fri, May 02, 2025 - 9:50am by amilenkov

Thanks again. The advice helped me with a little extra help from Chat GPT:

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Use AJAX: Yes

Fri, May 02, 2025 - 11:40am by yorkshirepudding

I find the Better Exposed Filters module is a must have for exposed filters.

Fri, May 02, 2025 - 8:47am by laryn

There is a way to override the title based on contextual filters, but I guess not for exposed filters.

Perhaps you could do a hook_views_pre_render() implementation and change the title based on the filter values there?