Similar URLs
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If I have two similar urls:
www.investormill.com/unemployment-rate
and
www.investormill.com/unemployment-rate-annual
Would this confuse search engines or "cannibalize" my content?
For clarity: the first page would provide data on the monthly unemployment rate, the second would provide an annual unemployment rate figure. So, there would be a unique series on each page. Just trying to figure out how to best approach this when crafting urls.
Thanks for your help!
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i think that is better to have a unique page with many sections:
1) monthly unemployment rate
2) annual unemployment rate
so you may avoid having two pages poorly positioned in the search engine respect one page that a well positioned because have a good content
Maurizio
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No it should not.
As long as each page has unique and differentiated content you should see them perform just fine independent of each other.
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