SEO filters

SEO filters

SEO filters helps you control which filtered listing URLs search engines should index. It sets robots and canonical meta tags through Metatag so multi-filter combinations, sort variants, and internal search results do not create crawl noise, while important editorial filters and pagination stay indexable.

Features

• Whitelist indexable query filters per listing path (for example /news + topic)
• index, follow when an approved filter is used alone (optional page kept in the canonical)
• noindex, follow for multi-filter or non-strategic filter combinations, with canonical back to the main listing
• noindex, follow for sort URLs; canonical drops sort and keeps an alone indexable filter + page when applicable
• Internal search paths: noindex, follow when a query string is present
• Optional always-noindex, nofollow paths and AJAX noindex
• Optional fallback: noindex any page with counted query parameters
• Multilingual path prefixes supported (configure /news, matches /en/news)

When to use this module

Use SEO filters on sites with Views (or similar) listing pages that expose filters and sort in the query string, and where you want a clear indexing policy:

• Index the clean listing and a few strategic single filters
• Do not index every filter combination or sort variant
• Keep pagination crawlable

Configuration

1. Enable the module and grant the Administer SEO filters permission
2. Go to Configuration → Search and metadata → SEO filters
3. Add listing rules: path + indexable query parameter names
4. Optionally configure always-noindex paths, internal search paths, AJAX noindex, and the global query-parameter fallback

The module sets its weight after Metatag when Metatag is installed, so these rules can override Metatag defaults for robots and canonical.

Requirements

• Drupal 11.1+
• PHP 8.3+
• Metatag
• Path Alias (core)

Similar projects

• Metatag — manages meta tags in general; SEO filters adds listing/filter/sort indexing rules on top of Metatag
• Rabbit Hole — controls entity page access/indexing behaviour; SEO filters targets query-string listing URLs

Supporting this module

Please file bugs and feature requests in the issue queue. Patches and merge requests are welcome.