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IceIcebaby last edited by

If there are two URLs like below:

example.com/toys/batman-toys
example.com/birthday/batman-toys

Both have the exact same everything, except URL key. The first example ranks for all KWs and search terms in the SEs. Does having the second page hurt my ranking potential for the first page? Should I redirect the 2nd page to the first or just leave it?

As always, thanks for your help.
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WhoWuddaThunk last edited by

This would be a good place to utilize a canonical. You can specify which one you want to be as the main source, and which is the duplicate.
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0102345 last edited by

Having a second page with duplicate content can hurt your rankings. I would re-direct
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