a spider trap is an incredibly common problem that can be found on websites of all sizes and can cause rankings to plummet and could even be considered a security issue..
Spider traps can affect your search engine rankings is because it reduces the ability for search engine spiders to crawl your site efficiently and wastes crawl equity.
It can also massively increase the likelihood that your website will be seen to contain large volumes of duplicate content, cause keyword cannibalisation and maybe even allow anyone to create rogue pages on your website that can then be easily indexed by Google leaving you wide open to negative SEO attacks…
