Check library · Content and on-page
Several pages target the same query
Why it matters
Pages competing for one query split their signals and neither wins.
What to do about it
Pick the page that should rank, and point the others at it with links or a redirect.
This one is reported rather than applied. It needs a judgement a person has to make, and applying it automatically would be a change to your site that nobody decided on.
How it is weighted
These are the values the scoring actually uses, not a description of them. Priority is derived from all three rather than chosen, which is why a high-impact, low-effort finding surfaces above a severe one that would take a quarter to fix.
- Severity
- medium
- Impact
- 50% of the weight this category can carry
- Effort
- 40%, where 100% is a project rather than a change
- Confidence
- 80% that a hit is a real problem rather than a pattern we misread
- Area
- Content and on-page
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