Parent pages : Duplicate content

[Sodimaccl]

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

[Sodimaccl]

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

[Dalerio-Consulting]

Hopefully, I understood the question right.

You don't get duplicate content for the product if the product is located on two different pages (categories), as you are just linking from 2 different sources while the content of the product is unique. You do get duplicate content for the category, however, if all the products in both categories are the same, in which case there is no point in having both categories so you just merge them or 301 redirect one of the categories to the other.

You can get duplicate content if there are tags that have the same posts as categories. Many people no-index the tags entirely, but depending on the site you may watch out so that they don't contain the same products(posts), or just 301 redirect from the tag to the category.

Daniel Rika - Dalerio Consulting
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