Setting up keywords in Position Tracking

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One of the two pages affects the other's ability to rank. Neither page will perform as well as it could.

You will have a hard time ranking for these keywords because search engines will have difficulty determining which page to display in the SERPs.

To find out if your site has keyword cannibalization issues, use the Position Tracking tool .

Create a project for your domain and set up your tracking.

Select the search engine, device and country you want to check:

Setting up targeting in Semrush Position Tracking
Then enter the keywords you want to track. Click “Add Keywords to Campaign” and then “Start Tracking.”

The " Cannibalization " tab shows which chinese overseas canada data keywords and pages are affected.

Cannibalization in Position Tracking
There are several common approaches to addressing keyword cannibalization:

Remove and redirect cannibalized pages
Canonicalization (tell Google which URL to favor)
Re-optimize the pages
Merge pages
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35. Find Orphan Pages and Fix Them
An orphan page is a page that has no internal links.