Daytona Beach Web Design vs. Daytona Web Design: What's Best?

[WebDaytona]

Three months ago we had our team create local pages for some of the services we render -- _i.e., _web design. As we reviewed the pages, they created two pages with similar content; one with URL:

1. /daytona-beach-web-design/
2. & /daytona-web-design/

We knew we had to kill one of them to avoid duplicate content. Here is where the hard decision came and hence the question.

We though about keeping the '/daytona-beach-web-design/ ' URL but for some reason, Google had already crawled the shorter version of the URL '/daytona-web-design/'

So we ended up deleting the long tail URL and kept Daytona Web Design instead.

Which one would you keep and have you experienced similar issues?

[LoganRay]

It was wise to kill one of those pages. If I were in this position, I would use as much data as possible to inform the decision. I would look at:

Google Search Console for impressions, average position, CTR

Google Analytics: entrances, page value, bounces

[WebDaytona]

The decision to kill [/daytona-beach-web-design/] was rather simple. Even though both pages were created at the same time.  After looking at Google Search Console, only one URL got indexed. So we deleted one and expanded our content on the the other.