Complicated Duplicate Content Question...but it's fun, so please help.
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Quick background: I have a page that is absolutely terrible, but it has links and it's a category page so it ranks. I have a landing page which is significantly - a bizillion times - better, but it is omitted in the search results for the most important query we need.
I'm considering switching the content of the two pages, but I have no idea what they will do. I'm not sure if it will cause duplicate content issues or what will happen.
Here are the two urls:
Terrible page that ranks (not well but it's what comes up eventually)
https://kemprugegreen.com/personal-injury/
Far better page that keeps getting omitted:
https://kemprugegreen.com/location/tampa/tampa-personal-injury-attorney/
Any suggestions (other than just wait on google to stop omitting the page, because that's just not going to happen) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ruben
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Yes. Canonical link transfers all the link juice.
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And that will transfer the link authority (or whatever is making that page rank) to the other page, as well?
- Ruben
P.S. Super Thank You!
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Hi there.
Super easy solution - put canonical link from "bad" page to "good" one. Do "fetch as google" in GWT. And voila!
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