Internal Links & Possible Duplicate Content

[Tz_Seo]

Hello,

I have a website which from February 6 is keep losing positions. I have not received any manual actions in the Search Console. However I have read the following article a few weeks ago and it look a lot with my case:

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cut-down-on-similar-content-pages-25223.html

I noticed that google has remove from indexing 44 out of the 182 pages of my website. The pages that have been removed can be considered as similar like the website that is mentioned in the article above.

The problem is that there are about 100 pages that are similar to these. It is about pages that describe the cabins of various cruise ships, that contain one picture and one sentence of max 10 words.

So, in terms of humans this is not duplicate content but what about the engine, having in mind that sometimes that little sentence can be the same?

And let’s say that I remove all these pages and present the cabin details in one page, instead of 15 for example, dynamically and that reduces that size of the website from 180 pages to 50 or so, how will this affect the SEO concerning the internal links issue?

Thank you for your help.

[seoman10]

If you have two pages or more that are very similar, it's very unlikely they will all rank.

You probably have a couple of options -

1. Merge all similar pages together to create long form informative content
2. Remove similar content completely

Alternatively you could consider an more of a guided structure, so essentially, you would thin down some of the pages to remove content that was already covered and enhance areas that hadn't been covered properly. The layout could be more like an online course or interactive e-book.

[Tz_Seo]

Hello,

Thanks for the answer.

if I merge all the similar pages to much fewer pages what will happen with the internal links?