Keyword cannibalization
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I ran the SEOMoz onpage diagnostic, and i got an alert for keyword cannibalization. My taxonomy is:
www.mysite.com/category (category page)
www.mysite.com/category/category-keyword (supporting page)
Links will be exact match in the primary navigation.
www.mysite.com anchor text "category" => www.mysite.com/category
www.mysite.com anchor text "category keyword" => www.mysite.com/category/category-keyword
www.mysite.com/category anchor text "category keyword" => www.mysite.com/category/category-keyword
and example would be /IT-support linking with anchor text "IT Support Servers" => /IT-Support/IT-Support-Servers
I'm not going to have a cannibalization problem, am I?
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Hi Rahul, you shouldn't have any cannibalization issue, but the high repetition of a keyword of you category may led google to sometimes show your category keyword page instead of the category one if it's capable to achieve enough value.
As an example looking at the /IT-Support/IT-Support-Servers page why not making that
/IT-Support/Servers
in that sense you won't be repeating so much your keywords there, which is less spammy, shorter and cleaner both for google and for users.