# Negative SEO because of too much category pages getting indexed

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/negative-seo-because-of-too-much-category-pages-getting-indexed/65420>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [30 Giugno 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/negative-seo-because-of-too-much-category-pages-getting-indexed/65420 "2017-06-30T19:58:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![veer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/veer/32/69391_2.png) [@veer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/veer)\
**Post date:** [30 Giugno 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/negative-seo-because-of-too-much-category-pages-getting-indexed/65420/1 "2017-06-30T19:58:35Z")

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If you look for total category pages indexed of [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) with following query in google

`site:meta.discourse.org/c/`

you will find 1670 pages index. Similarly i have a discourse site with 50 categories  
while here more than 23 thousand pages are indexed under category. ( **A very very dangerous signal for seo because of content duplicacy** )  
It should be fixed otherwise google will penalise a discourse website rankings.  
Look at the following screenshot how duplicate pages are created and indexed.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/a/0a9c740a1721b0209b08ea91456f6699e435aa95.png)

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