Signal 01
One query, two URLs
The same search term returning impressions against more than one of your pages, with meaningful volume on each.
Analyzers · Cannibalization
Keyword cannibalization, found in your own data.
Most cannibalization advice is guesswork. These two pages feel similar, so merge them. That's how good pages get consolidated and the ones actually costing you clicks get missed.
It isn't a hunch, it's a pattern in your search data. The same query splitting impressions across two of your URLs, with the click-through depressed on both.
01 · The signal
What real cannibalization looks like.
Two pages covering a similar topic isn't the problem. Two pages dividing one intent is. The fingerprint shows up three ways at once.
Signal 02
Positions that wobble
Google alternating which of your pages it shows, so neither settles. Searchscope flags this separately as URL dancing.
Signal 03
Click-through below par
A combined click-through rate lower than a single consolidated page would have earned. That gap is the recoverable clicks.
query: "best hiking boots" returning two of your URLs
/guides/best-hiking-boots pos 6.2 impr 28,400 clicks 402
/blog/hiking-boots-review pos 9.8 impr 22,800 clicks 183
overlap 64% potential clicks +170 URL dancing
shared keywords best hiking boots, hiking boots review, waterproof hiking boots
Two URLs, one intent, positions wobbling, click-through split.
/guides/best-hiking-boots pos 6.2 impr 28,400 clicks 402
/blog/hiking-boots-review pos 9.8 impr 22,800 clicks 183
overlap 64% potential clicks +170 URL dancing
shared keywords best hiking boots, hiking boots review, waterproof hiking boots
Two URLs, one intent, positions wobbling, click-through split.
02 · The call
The fix is a decision, not a merge.
Every conflict comes with the winner named and one of three strategies attached, because the right answer depends on intent rather than on similarity.
Strategy 01
Consolidate
Both pages chase the same intent. Redirect the weaker into the stronger and fold the useful content across.
Strategy 02
Differentiate
The intents are genuinely different but the pages have blurred. Sharpen each one so the results page can tell them apart.
Strategy 03
Keep both
Sometimes the honest answer is to leave it alone. Searchscope will say so rather than manufacture a job.
03 · Before you see it
Most conflicts never reach you.
Cannibalization tools are notorious for this. Four hundred conflicts, most of them noise, and by the time you've dismissed the first thirty you've stopped believing the list. Nobody ever fixes number one hundred and thirty seven, because nobody believes number one hundred and thirty seven matters.
A judge reviews every finding before you see one of them. It reads the evidence behind each conflict and decides whether it has earned your attention. The ones that don't survive are set aside with the reason recorded against them.
Set aside 01
Brand navigation
Search your company name and Google will reasonably show your homepage and a product page together. That's navigation working, and a tool that flags it burns your trust in the first five minutes.
Set aside 02
Too small to be worth it
A technically real conflict on a query with forty impressions is still a technically real conflict. It is not worth an afternoon of anyone's time, so it doesn't reach your queue.
Set aside 03
Intents that only look alike
Two pages can share wording and serve genuinely different needs. Where the click behavior says the searcher wanted different things, there is nothing here to fix.
cannibalization run complete
/shop/boots · / set aside brand navigation, not a conflict
/blog/sock-guide · /blog/socks set aside 42 impressions, below the floor
/guides/boot-care · /shop/care set aside intents differ, no overlap in clicks
/guides/best-hiking-boots · /blog/hiking-boots-review
shown 64% overlap, 170 clicks in play, positions wobbling
The ones that didn't survive are still on file, with the reason they didn't.
/shop/boots · / set aside brand navigation, not a conflict
/blog/sock-guide · /blog/socks set aside 42 impressions, below the floor
/guides/boot-care · /shop/care set aside intents differ, no overlap in clicks
/guides/best-hiking-boots · /blog/hiking-boots-review
shown 64% overlap, 170 clicks in play, positions wobbling
The ones that didn't survive are still on file, with the reason they didn't.
04 · Then what
From conflict to published fix.
Every row carries its evidence: the competing pages, the shared queries, the overlap and the clicks in play. Open the Strategic Advisor on it to ask why the split happened and whether the rewrite is worth the hours, or send it to Content Studio, where the brief arrives with the SERP and the ranking competitors already alongside it.
Mark it applied and the Impact Tracker takes a baseline that day, so you find out whether the consolidation earned anything.
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