u/HammerSpanner

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Looking for some help/advice on a canabalisation issue

Hello all!

Im a wedding photographer, my site is mostly based around wedding venues (it's what people search for).

Ive recently started to work up some venue hero pages - these have all the info about the venue, how I work, and lots of text and images. These are very seo focused.

in addition to this, I also have multiple secondary pages (wedding gallery pages) - these obviously mention the venue quite heavily, but are more focused on the photos, the couple and their wedding day. But other than looking through my site, the only real way people would find these pages is if they did a search for the venue's name on Google.

And that's where the issue lies - Ive recently connected Claude with GSC, and it made the observation that multiple pages are fighting against each other for the same keywords, specifically the venue name.

So, to summarise - I have one hero page, multiple secondary pages all fighting for Google's attention.

Claude's suggestion was to 301 redirect all the secondary pages to the hero page, but that's a terrible idea as it effectively deactivates the secondary pages in favour of the hero page. Its next suggestion was to noindex them and just focus on the hero page while linking all the secondary pages through the hero page. And that at least makes a lot of sense.

Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on how best to approach this?

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u/HammerSpanner — 1 day ago

Looking for some help/advice on a canabalisation issue

Hello all!

Im a wedding photographer, my site is mostly based around wedding venues (it's what people search for).

Ive recently started to work up some venue hero pages - these have all the info about the venue, how I work, and lots of text and images. These are very seo focused.

in addition to this, I also have multiple secondary pages (wedding gallery pages) - these obviously mention the venue quite heavily, but are more focused on the photos, the couple and their wedding day. But other than looking through my site, the only real way people would find these pages is if they did a search for the venue's name on Google.

And that's where the issue lies - Ive recently connected Claude with GSC, and it made the observation that multiple pages are fighting against each other for the same keywords, specifically the venue name.

So, to summarise - I have one hero page, multiple secondary pages all fighting for Google's attention.

Claude's suggestion was to 301 redirect all the secondary pages to the hero page, but that's a terrible idea as it effectively deactivates the secondary pages in favour of the hero page. Its next suggestion was to noindex them and just focus on the hero page while linking all the secondary pages through the hero page. And that at least makes a lot of sense.

Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on how best to approach this?

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u/HammerSpanner — 2 days ago

I have a bunch of galleries all generated by a plugin called Modula Gallery (its great!)

But for every gallery I generate, WordPress is generating an image gallery schema.

I don't want this - and Ive been told by Modula technical support that it's not their plugin that's generating it, and it will be something else - or another plugin

So with that in mind, I deactivated EVERY plugin (including RankMath) and still the schema is there. I quite literally only have 1 plugin running, which is the Modula Gallery plugin.

This is a long shot, but does anyone have any ideas?

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u/HammerSpanner — 17 days ago

Hey All,

I run a little e-commerce business, and I love using Claude to help with product descriptions. The way I tend to use it is give Claude a link to an existing product page (as a template/example), upload some image of the new product and ask it to write/give me ideas/product descriptions and titles for the new product.

On the face of it its pretty simple stuff. And it works pretty well

Ive downloaded LM Studio, and Im not having much luck. It can't (seem to anyway) read HTML pages, can't access the web, uploading images kinda works, but its a bit clunky vs just giving it a link to an existing product page and hitting enter.

Any help would be much appreciated

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u/HammerSpanner — 19 days ago

Im sure this is a me problem....but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to wake this thing up.

After printing a couple of days back, the printer is now sitting there, plugged in, but totaly unresponsive. The green light on the side of off, and is replaced with a red light, the start button at the top is inactive and unresponsive.

Logging into the software, it says it's "idle" but nothing I do will wake it up. If I do a screenshot, I simply get an error that says "device not connected, please try again"

I can, of course, unplug it and plug it back in, that works, but I don't believe this is a good long-term solution

btw, its connected to the network via network cable, not wifi. Although Ive tried the app, its still unresponsive

Any ideas?

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u/HammerSpanner — 23 days ago