Skip to content
    Moz logo Menu open Menu close
    • Products
      • Moz Pro
      • Moz Pro Home
      • Moz Local
      • Moz Local Home
      • STAT
      • Moz API
      • Moz API Home
      • Compare SEO Products
      • Moz Data
    • Free SEO Tools
      • Domain Analysis
      • Keyword Explorer
      • Link Explorer
      • Competitive Research
      • MozBar
      • More Free SEO Tools
    • Learn SEO
      • Beginner's Guide to SEO
      • SEO Learning Center
      • Moz Academy
      • MozCon
      • Webinars, Whitepapers, & Guides
    • Blog
    • Why Moz
      • Digital Marketers
      • Agency Solutions
      • Enterprise Solutions
      • Small Business Solutions
      • The Moz Story
      • New Releases
    • Log in
    • Log out
    • Products
      • Moz Pro

        Your all-in-one suite of SEO essentials.

      • Moz Local

        Raise your local SEO visibility with complete local SEO management.

      • STAT

        SERP tracking and analytics for enterprise SEO experts.

      • Moz API

        Power your SEO with our index of over 44 trillion links.

      • Compare SEO Products

        See which Moz SEO solution best meets your business needs.

      • Moz Data

        Power your SEO strategy & AI models with custom data solutions.

      Enhance Keyword Discovery with Bulk Analysis
      Moz Pro

      Enhance Keyword Discovery with Bulk Analysis

      Learn more
    • Free SEO Tools
      • Domain Analysis

        Get top competitive SEO metrics like DA, top pages and more.

      • Keyword Explorer

        Find traffic-driving keywords with our 1.25 billion+ keyword index.

      • Link Explorer

        Explore over 40 trillion links for powerful backlink data.

      • Competitive Research

        Uncover valuable insights on your organic search competitors.

      • MozBar

        See top SEO metrics for free as you browse the web.

      • More Free SEO Tools

        Explore all the free SEO tools Moz has to offer.

      NEW Keyword Suggestions by Topic
      Moz Pro

      NEW Keyword Suggestions by Topic

      Learn more
    • Learn SEO
      • Beginner's Guide to SEO

        The #1 most popular introduction to SEO, trusted by millions.

      • SEO Learning Center

        Broaden your knowledge with SEO resources for all skill levels.

      • On-Demand Webinars

        Learn modern SEO best practices from industry experts.

      • How-To Guides

        Step-by-step guides to search success from the authority on SEO.

      • Moz Academy

        Upskill and get certified with on-demand courses & certifications.

      • MozCon

        Save on Early Bird tickets and join us in London or New York City

      Access 20 years of data with flexible pricing
      Moz API

      Access 20 years of data with flexible pricing

      Find your plan
    • Blog
    • Why Moz
      • Digital Marketers

        Simplify SEO tasks to save time and grow your traffic.

      • Small Business Solutions

        Uncover insights to make smarter marketing decisions in less time.

      • Agency Solutions

        Earn & keep valuable clients with unparalleled data & insights.

      • Enterprise Solutions

        Gain a competitive edge in the ever-changing world of search.

      • The Moz Story

        Moz was the first & remains the most trusted SEO company.

      • New Releases

        Get the scoop on the latest and greatest from Moz.

      Surface actionable competitive intel
      New Feature

      Surface actionable competitive intel

      Learn More
    • Log in
      • Moz Pro
      • Moz Local
      • Moz Local Dashboard
      • Moz API
      • Moz API Dashboard
      • Moz Academy
    • Avatar
      • Moz Home
      • Notifications
      • Account & Billing
      • Manage Users
      • Community Profile
      • My Q&A
      • My Videos
      • Log Out

    The Moz Q&A Forum

    • Forum
    • Questions
    • Users
    • Ask the Community

    Welcome to the Q&A Forum

    Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.

    1. Home
    2. SEO Tactics
    3. Intermediate & Advanced SEO
    4. Two Pages with the Same Name Different URL's

    Moz Q&A is closed.

    After more than 13 years, and tens of thousands of questions, Moz Q&A closed on 12th December 2024. Whilst we’re not completely removing the content - many posts will still be possible to view - we have locked both new posts and new replies. More details here.

    Two Pages with the Same Name Different URL's

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO
    2
    3
    1128
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as question
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with question management privileges can see it.
    • SKP
      SKP last edited by

      I was hoping someone could give me some insight into a perplexing issue that I am having with my website. I run an 20K product ecommerce website and I am finding it necessary to have two pages for my content: 1 for content category pages about wigets one for shop pages for wigets

      1st page would be .com/shop/wiget/

      2nd page would be .com/content/wiget/

      The 1st page would be a catalogue of all the products with filters for the customer to narrow down wigets. So ultimately the URL for the shop page could look like this when the customer filters down...

      .com/shop/wiget/color/shape/

      The second page would be content all about the Wigets. This would be types of wigets colors of wigets, how wigets are used, links to articles about wigets etc.

      Here are my questions.

      1. Is it bad to have two pages about wigets on the site, one for shopping and one for information. The issue here is when I combine my content wiget with my shop wiget page, no one buys anything. But I want to be able to provide Google the best experience for rankings. What is the best approach for Google and the customer?

      2.  Should I rel canonical all of my .com/shop/wiget/ + .com/wiget/color/ etc. pages to the .com/content/wiget/ page? Or, Should I be canonicalizing all of my .com/shop/wiget/color/etc pages to .com/shop/wiget/ page?

      3. Ranking issues. As it is right now, I rank #1 for wiget color. This page on my site would be .com/shop/wiget/color/ . If I rel canonicalize all of my pages to .com/content/wiget/ I am going to loose my rankings because all of my shop/wiget/xxx/xxx/ pages will then point to .com/content/wiget/ page.

      I am just finding with these massive ecommerce sites that there is WAY to much potential for duplicate content, not enough room to allow Google the ability to rank long tail phrases all the while making it completely complicated to offer people pages that promote buying.

      As I said before, when I combine my content + shop pages together into one page, my sales hit the floor (like 0 - 15 dollars a day), when i just make a shop page my sales are like (1k+ a day). But I have noticed that ever since Penguin and Panda my rankings have fallen from #1 across the board to #15 and lower for a lot of my phrase with the exception of the one mentioned above. This is why I want to make an information page about wigets and a shop page for people to buy wigets.

      Please advise if you would. Thanks so much for any insight you can give me!

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • SKP
        SKP last edited by

        The main reason that I have two pages about Wigets is due in part to the shopping experience.

        If someone comes to my page, the last things they want to do is read a whole bunch of "googley goop" about Wigets. I know, sounds crazy, but the truth is in the putting.

        I have served up filter pages with widgets on them, and I have served up pages with widgets + content about widgets on them, and i have servered up only pages about widgets with links out to widget filter pages. The best performing pages are those with only a vast amount of widgets (little pictures and micro descriptions) on them. My customers just want to browse browse browse, they dont want to read any thing. Call me crazy 🙂

        That being the case, this does not make for a good landing page for Google for so many reasons be it duplicate content, lack of unique content etc. Google wants unique quality content, and my landing page about widgets (the page with just a bunch of squares each containing a widget and micro content such as name and color) just does not suffice. Keep in mind I have over 20K widgets on my site.

        That is the reason why it is very necessary for me to have a page about widgets and a shopping page showing all the variety of widgets in all their shapes and colors.

        The content page is all about widgets, how their are made, sizes, colors, links to articles etc. If I were to put this on the widget shopping page, I can kiss all my sales goodbye. The reason I know this is because I have done it and this was the reward I received from my customers. My customers only want to browse and shop widgets and the Google gods want content about widgets, not just a collection widgets on a page, because everyone else is doing that. I have actually created lots of content pages about my widgets with amazing content. No one else has this, that is why I need two pages.

        Thus my dilema which I spoke of before in my original post.

        Any suggestions are welcome 🙂 Cheers!

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • irvingw
          irvingw last edited by

          The first question I would have is why?

          "The issue here is when I combine my content widget with my shop widget page, no one buys anything."

          You can include all of your content on the shop page and hide it in a jquery and the shop page would look almost identical to how it is now, but that page would rank because of the content and the user would be one click closer to the purchase than if they were to land on the information page first.

          I would suggest doing that and only having one page per product with the information on the page in a way that does not negatively impact conversion rates. Some a/b testing may be in order, A/B testing is always in order anyway for conversion pages 😉

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
          • 1 / 1
          • First post
            Last post

          Got a burning SEO question?

          Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.


          Start my free trial


          Browse Questions

          Explore more categories

          • Moz Tools

            Chat with the community about the Moz tools.

          • SEO Tactics

            Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers

          • Community

            Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!

          • Digital Marketing

            Chat about tactics outside of SEO

          • Research & Trends

            Dive into research and trends in the search industry.

          • Support

            Connect on product support and feature requests.

          • See all categories

          Related Questions

          • fablau

            What's the best way to noindex pages but still keep backlinks equity?

            Hello everyone, Maybe it is a stupid question, but I ask to the experts... What's the best way to noindex pages but still keep backlinks equity from those noindexed pages? For example, let's say I have many pages that look similar to a "main" page which I solely want to appear on Google, so I want to noindex all pages with the exception of that "main" page... but, what if I also want to transfer any possible link equity present on the noindexed pages to the main page? The only solution I have thought is to add a canonical tag pointing to the main page on those noindexed pages... but will that work or cause wreak havoc in some way?

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | fablau
            3
          • RosemaryB

            Need a layman's definition/analogy of the difference between schema and structured data

            I'm currently writing a blog post about schema.  However I want to set the record straight that schema is not exactly the same as structured data, although both are often used interchangeably.  I understand this schema.org is a vocabulary of global identifiers for properties and things.   Structured data is what Google officially stated as "a standard way to annotate your content so machines can understand it..." Does anybody know of a good analogy to compare the two? Thanks!

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | RosemaryB
            0
          • esiow2013

            May know what's the meaning of these parameters in .htaccess?

            Begin HackRepair.com Blacklist RewriteEngine on Abuse Agent Blocking RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bolt\ 0 [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot\ mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} CazoodleBot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Default\ Browser\ 0 [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DIIbot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} discobot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download\ Demon [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ecxi [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailCollector [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express\ WebPictures [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EyeNetIE [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FlashGet [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetRight [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetWeb! [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go-Ahead-Got-It [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GrabNet [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Grafula [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GT::WWW [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} heritrix [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HMView [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HTTP::Lite [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HTTrack [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ia_archiver [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} IDBot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} id-search [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} id-search.org [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Stripper [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Sucker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Indy\ Library [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InterGET [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Internet\ Ninja [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InternetSeer.com [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} IRLbot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ISC\ Systems\ iRc\ Search\ 2.1 [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Java [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JetCar [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JOC\ Web\ Spider [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^larbin [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^LeechFTP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Link [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} LinksManager.com_bot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} linkwalker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} lwp-trivial [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mass\ Downloader [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Maxthon$ [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MFC_Tear_Sample [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^microsoft.url [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Microsoft\ URL\ Control [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MIDown\ tool [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mister\ PiX [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Missigua\ Locator [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla.*Indy [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla.NEWT [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MSFrontPage [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Navroad [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NearSite [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetAnts [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetSpider [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Net\ Vampire [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetZIP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Nutch [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Octopus [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Explorer [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Navigator [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PageGrabber [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} panscient.com [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Papa\ Foto [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pavuk [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PECL::HTTP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PeoplePal [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pcBrowser [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PHPCrawl [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PleaseCrawl [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^psbot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^RealDownload [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ReGet [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Rippers\ 0 [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SBIder [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SeaMonkey$ [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^sitecheck.internetseer.com [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SiteSnagger [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SmartDownload [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Snoopy [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Steeler [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperBot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperHTTP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Surfbot [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^tAkeOut [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport\ Pro [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Toata\ dragostea\ mea\ pentru\ diavola [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} URI::Fetch [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} urllib [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} User-Agent [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^VoidEYE [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Image\ Collector [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Sucker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Web\ Sucker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} webalta [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^[Ww]eb[Bb]andit [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WebCollage [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebGo\ IS [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebLeacher [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ eXtractor [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ Quester [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Wells\ Search\ II [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} WEP\ Search [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Widow [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWW-Mechanize [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWWOFFLE [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon\ WebSpider [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} zermelo [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^(.)Zeus.Webster [NC,OR]
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ZyBorg [NC]
            RewriteRule ^. - [F,L] Abuse bot blocking rule end End HackRepair.com Blacklist

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | esiow2013
            1
          • nicole.healthline

            Soft 404's from pages blocked by robots.txt -- cause for concern?

            We're seeing soft 404 errors appear in our google webmaster tools section on pages that are blocked by robots.txt (our search result pages). Should we be concerned? Is there anything we can do about this?

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | nicole.healthline
            4
          • RichBestSEO

            Is there any negative SEO effect of having comma's in URL's?

            Hello, I have a client who has a large ecommerce website. Some category names have been created with comma's in - which has meant that their software has automatically generated URL's with comma's in for every page that comes beneath the category in the site hierarchy. eg. 1 : http://shop.deliaonline.com/store/music,-dvd-and-games/dvds-and-blu_rays/ eg. 2 : http://shop.deliaonline.com/store/music,-dvd-and-games/dvds-and-blu_rays/action-and-adventure/ etc... I know that URL's with comma's in look a bit ugly! But is there 'any' SEO reason why URL's with comma's in are any less effective? Kind Regs, RB

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | RichBestSEO
            0
          • msquare

            Submitting URLs multiple times in different sitemaps

            We have a very dynamic site, with a large number of pages. We use a sitemap index file, that points to several smaller sitemap files. The question is: Would there be any issue if we include the same URL in multiple sitemap files? Scenario: URL1 appears on sitemap1. 2 weeks later, the page at URL1 changes and we'd like to update it on a sitemap. Would it be acceptable to add URL1 as an entry in sitemap2?  Would there be any issues with the same URL appearing multiple times? Thanks.

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | msquare
            0
          • WebMarketingandDesign

            Multiple URLs for the same page

            I am working with a client and recently discovered that they have several URLs that go to the same page. http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx
            http://www.maps.com/funfacts.aspx
            http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF
            http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FS
            http://www.maps.com/funfacts.aspx?nav=FF
            http://www.maps.com/funfacts.aspx?nav=ffhttp://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=MShttp://www.maps.com/funfacts.aspx?nav=
            http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF#
            http://www.maps.com/FunFacts
            http://www.maps.com/funfacts.aspx?.nav=FF I am afraid this is happening all over the site. So, my question is: Is this hurting the SEO and how? If so what is the best way to go about fixing this problem? Thanks for your help!

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | WebMarketingandDesign
            0
          • Townpages

            Culling 99% of a website's pages. Will this cause irreparable damage?

            I have a large travel site that has over 140,000 pages. The problem I have is that the majority of pages are filled with dupe content. When Panda came in, our rankings were obliterated, so I am trying to isolate the unique content on the site and go forward with that. The problem is, the site has been going for over 10 years, with every man and his dog copying content from it. It seems that our travel guides have been largely left untouched and are the only unique content that I can find. We have 1000 travel guides in total. My first question is, would reducing 140,000 pages to just 1,000 ruin the site's authority in any way? The site does use internal linking within these pages, so culling them will remove thousands of internal links throughout the site. Also, am I right in saying that the link juice should now move to the more important pages with unique content, if redirects are set up correctly? And finally, how would you go about redirecting all theses pages? I will be culling a huge amount of hotel pages, would you consider redirecting all of these to the generic hotels page of the site? Thanks for your time, I know this is quite a long one, Nick

            Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Townpages
            0

          Get started with Moz Pro!

          Unlock the power of advanced SEO tools and data-driven insights.

          Start my free trial
          Products
          • Moz Pro
          • Moz Local
          • Moz API
          • Moz Data
          • STAT
          • Product Updates
          Moz Solutions
          • SMB Solutions
          • Agency Solutions
          • Enterprise Solutions
          • Digital Marketers
          Free SEO Tools
          • Domain Authority Checker
          • Link Explorer
          • Keyword Explorer
          • Competitive Research
          • Brand Authority Checker
          • Local Citation Checker
          • MozBar Extension
          • MozCast
          Resources
          • Blog
          • SEO Learning Center
          • Help Hub
          • Beginner's Guide to SEO
          • How-to Guides
          • Moz Academy
          • API Docs
          About Moz
          • About
          • Team
          • Careers
          • Contact
          Why Moz
          • Case Studies
          • Testimonials
          Get Involved
          • Become an Affiliate
          • MozCon
          • Webinars
          • Practical Marketer Series
          • MozPod
          Connect with us

          Contact the Help team

          Join our newsletter
          Moz logo
          © 2021 - 2025 SEOMoz, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. All rights reserved. Moz is a registered trademark of SEOMoz, Inc.
          • Accessibility
          • Terms of Use
          • Privacy

          Looks like your connection to Moz was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.