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?