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Yes that was the question, thank you.

It is correct that for example 1 sub-category with the exact same list of products appears in 2 differents categories (but with a unique URL).
So as you say in the second part of your first paragraph I should merge them or 301 redirect one of the categories to the other.

If I understood your answer right, would it be better to choose 1 category (let's call it category1) as a "father" for this sub-category ?
And maybe create a 301 redirection link for this sub-category that would be present in the second category (category2) ?

Thank you,

Max

Hello,

I think this question relates to "Parent pages" structure or SILO but I couldn't find an answer online.

For a website that sell products, for example "Appliances". A link to this page appears in 1 category of the menu named "kitchen" but also in another 1 category named "household appliances".

It means that it appears twice in the menu but with a unique URL.

Would that affect SEO ? Is it duplicate content ? And would it be better to choose 1 father or let it that way ?

Thanks for your help.

Max

Hello,

I'm getting back to you about a point in your answer :

"So you have to make clear that it is not 90% branded traffic , it should be more unbranded keywords.  In this case - before I would do anything, I would try to figure out why subfolder 2 is ranking for these terms and why subfolder 1 is not."

I understood and one of the main Keywords is "muebles" (Furniture in english) but the pages are really similar.
Except for the basic "Title, Meta, H1, etc" are there others characteristics or feature I should look into ?

Thank you
Maxime

Hello Andreas,

Thank you for your answer.

Yes exactly, that's what I'm trying to do right now : Figure out why subfolder 2 is ranking better than subfolder 1.
Then I'll make the appropriate changes but because SEO can take a long time to update and if the company is in a hurry I wanted also like a backup plan to "accelerate" those changes if possible.

So right now I'm analyzing the pages (Title, Meta, H1, H2, speed, etc) to look for keywords and see the differences.

If you have any more advice I'll be glad to read it.

Thank you.

Hello,

I looked through the forum but couldn't find an answer so here is my question:

A client have 2 subfolders that are selling the same things for example Furnitures, Office Furniture, Bedroom Furniture, etc.

The website looks like this :

• www.website.com/subfolder1/
• www.website.com/subfolder2/

But it's like 2 diferents brand, just that it sells the same kind of product.

The company wants to put evereything in subfolder1 and stop the subfolder2, which mean stop the second brand.

But the thing is that right now the subfolder2 have better positions in SEO than subfolder1 for most of the Keywords.

How could I make all the internet traffic goes from the subfolder2 to the subfolder1 ?
A 301 redirection could do the trick ? In addition of improving the SEO (Title, H1, Meta, etc) of the subfolder1 ?

Thanks for your help.

Understood.

Thanks a lot for your answer

Hello,

When I want to "Explore by site" and make a "Site overview", I have only 4 choices for the region :

• USA
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• Australia

But the location of my business is in Chile.
Does this have any repercussion or negative impact in the analytics ?

Thank you.

Hello,

I think this question relates to "Parent pages" structure or SILO but I couldn't find an answer online.

For a website that sell products, for example "Appliances". A link to this page appears in 1 category of the menu named "kitchen" but also in another 1 category named "household appliances".

It means that it appears twice in the menu but with a unique URL.

Would that affect SEO ? Is it duplicate content ? And would it be better to choose 1 father or let it that way ?

Thanks for your help.

Max