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: How can Google crawl content accessed via filter check-boxes? I built a website that is divided into many categories. Each page displays the main category, and within that there is a check-box

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I built a website that is divided into many categories. Each page displays the main category, and within that there is a check-box filter (like Amazon and eBay have when searching for items).

I want this filter to be indexed by crawlers so that my sub-categories will also appear in the search engines results. How should I build this filter?

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@Nimeshi995

Search engine robots like the Googlebot cannot select check-boxes, make selections from lists, or anything similar... They just crawl links and index the content they find.

Since there is a selection involved here, I'm guessing that there's also either a server-side script and/or AJAX being used to filter the selections. You would need to supply URL's already containing the selection criteria in links within a sitemap.xml or as links somewhere in your site's content.

An example would be:
www.abccompany.com/products?gloves=white&gender=female
For more information on the structure of dynamic URL's and Google's suggestions, see: URL Structure

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