Hello Everyone! I'm new here!
My husband and I are working on creating a website: https://sacwellness.com .The site is an online therapist directory for the the Sacramento California area.
Our problem is this: In wordpress our category system is being used for blog posts. Our theme is using a custom taxonomy system to categorize different therapist specialties, therapeutic approaches, etc. We've found ourselves in a position where our custom taxonomy and categories are near duplicates.
for example we have the blog categories: ADHD counseling, Anxiety therapy, and Career counseling
our corresponding custom taxonomy/therapist categories are: ADHD, Anxiety, and....(oops) career counseling.
My understanding is that google doesn't see a difference between identically named categories and custom taxonomies and will so choose one to rank and disregard the other, effectively leaving you competing against yourself.
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is this true in a case like this? Can google maybe understand the difference because of the custom taxonomy and/or URL paths?
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if this is a problem is it ok to have near duplicates....like ADHD vs. ADHD counseling. This has been our solution so far....but now we're questioning it....derp x_x.
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I thought about tagging the categories with no index, but I think the archive pages would be useful for people. Essentially we have 2 sets of archives for each keyword. One is for blog posts, and one is for therapists who work with that particular issue along with the 6 most recent blog posts in that category.....because we are putting the 6 most recent blog posts at the bottom of the therapist pages I feel like it wouldn't be as terrible of a loss if we had to noindex the category pages.
....what do you think?
Thank you!
