2 Pages with Different Content but about Same Topic

[rekhabisht]

Hi Webmasters,

I want to ask, that I have a website with thousands of pages(with no content duplicacy), but have few pages that offer the same information, but obviously content and URL is not the same.

Eg: https:abc.com/seo-services
https:// www.abc.com/seo/seo-services-india

These two pages are proving information about seo services in india, information may be the same as it is about the same topic, but the content is not duplicate.

So, my question is will google count it duplicates content?
Will Google be confused in giving ranking for these pages?
Can I lose ranking because of this issue?

If yes, what is the solution for this? Should I put a rel canonical tag on one page to provide preference to another one.

[edited by: goodroi at 1:03 pm (utc) on Mar 12, 2021]
[edit reason] fixed url [/edit]

[lammert]

If I understand the situation correctly, you have a general page about the topic and one with (almost) the same information specific for one country. In that case you can use hreflang tags to tell Google that the content is essentially the same, but the page for the specific country most be shown to visitors who have that specific language/country pair in their browser settings.

You can add the following hreflang tags to both pages:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-IN" href="https://www.example.com/seo/seo-services-india" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://www.example.com/seo-services" />

[rekhabisht]

Hey lammert,

Thanks for your response.

I want to give you an easy example. Suppose, I have two pages on the same website that provide information about the Statue of Liberty.

URLs are different for both of the pages and the content is not duplicate. But the information is the same.

Will Google count it duplicate pages?

I hope y0ou are getting my points.

[lammert]

It won't kick you out of the SERPs but it wouldn't give you any benefit either because both pages will be competing in the SERPs for the same keywords. In the end Google will show only one URL to visitors. Instead of rephrasing the same content, what you should try to do is, while talking about the same subject, take different view angles on different pages.

For example, if your topic is elephants, you could talk on one page about elephants in Africa, on a second page about elephants in Asia, on a third page about elephants in a China shop and on a fourth page about elephants in the room.

This will signal to Google that you are serious about elephants, but it will also create different keyword sets for the algorithm which will give you more opportunities in the SERPs to rank for elephant related searches.

[rekhabisht]

Thanks, Iammert,

Thanks for the clarification. Now I understand :)