# Negative SEO because of too much category pages getting indexed

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Junho 30, 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:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [Junho 30, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/negative-seo-because-of-too-much-category-pages-getting-indexed/65420/3 "2017-06-30T20:54:06Z")

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I think you may be expecting the Google search modifier to to behave in a way it doesn’t.

[Refine Google searches - Google Search Help](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433)

> Search for a specific site  
> Put “site:” in front of a site or domain. For example, site:youtube.com or site:.gov.

Do you have a Google reference that indicates URLs with sub-folders limits results to only those folders?

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