Does a number at the end of a permalink matter?
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I'm reorganizing our categories (we had never used them) and some of them are the same as old tags. So one of them is going to have to have -1 at the end of the permalink (dueling-pianos vs dueling-pianos-1). Does this matter SEO-wise? Is the permalink less powerful to the search engines if it has a number at the end of it? Should I change our tags from dueling-pianos to dueilng-pianos-1? Or should I make the category dueling-piano-1?
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That's why I was going to name them dueling-pianos and dueling-pianos-1. They both like like the first version. Thanks for the tip!
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I can't see that having any effect SEO wise.
The only real concern I would consider is from a user experience perspective. Does this look neat for a user? If it was named dueling-pianos-2, one might be inclined to look for the first version of the page.
But even that is a stretch. I wouldn't worry about it at all and keep it how it is.
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