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    • CsmBill
      CsmBill last edited by

      I ran the SEOMoz onpage diagnostic, and i got an alert for keyword cannibalization. My taxonomy is:

      www.mysite.com

      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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      • mememax
        mememax last edited by

        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.

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