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: Is it bad SEO practice to have two almost-identical URLs? On my blog, after coding a function which trims stop words, I ended up with these two URLs which are identical if not for the post

@Chiappetta492

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On my blog, after coding a function which trims stop words, I ended up with these two URLs which are identical if not for the post ID:
www.example.com/europe/france/597/june-weather-update www.example.com/europe/france/997/june-weather-update

My platform - Wordpress - adds "-1", "-2", "-3" to the URLs when this happens but I removed it in my function. Now as I will have weather updates every year, it will be common for two or more links to be pretty much the same.

Would this cause any SEO issues? Please note that the content of the two pages is completely different, not related to each other.

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@Welton855

This will not directly hurt your SEO rankings. But consider this, other than the page content, you now have two pages "competing" for the same terms. You might want to manually help your page names out in cases like this. For example 2014-june-weather-update and 2013-june-weather-update would likely help users and SE alike to distinguish what your pages are about. (this is just an example, I don't know the details of your pages)

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@Kevin317

No, this will not cause SEO issues. It is very common and normal for URLs to be similar as often times the only difference between URLs in an ID number of some kind. What matters is the content of these pages are different. It's when that starts to be very similar that you will run into issues.

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