RadarMakers Keeps Sparse Category and Tag Pages Out of Search Indexes

A developer writing for DEV Community explains how RadarMakers treats category and tag pages with fewer than three live products as too thin to index. Such pages stay visible to visitors but serve a noindex directive with follow enabled, so crawlers can still traverse their links. The threshold of three is an internal application rule chosen by the team, not a requirement set by search engines or a measured quality score. The post shows the implementation in the codebase, including a live-product filter that removes non-live and duplicate entries before counting. A snapshot of the catalog taken October 31, 2026 showed nine of sixteen categories falling below the threshold, three of them with no live products at all.
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