example.com/player/article-title should be fine for SEO setup, just make sure you hit your target keyword phrase in the first 3-5 words of the article title.
Hi Bob, thanks for the feedback! I think I misexplained the topic. My fault.
So assuming the player’s name is John Blue:
The custom taxonomy labeled “player” would be John Blue, so the archive link for that taxonomy would be example.com/player/john-blue
His profile page, a custom post type also labeled “player” would be example.com/player/john-blue
So due to this, the archive page for the custom taxonomy is basically nonexistent because when you visit the link, it is the profile page (the custom post type).
I am not sure if google would see this as one page or two pages with the same content, marking it as “duplicate content” or if affects SEO at all
You can’t have the same URL pointing to two different pages. That’s not WordPress, but a standard rule that’s been in place since the internet started. think about it from the servers point of view… If it gets told to serve out that URL, how would it know which page would it show? WordPress will do it’s best to show what it thinks it should, but you will still only ever see one page for that URL, and the other one will be hidden.
You really need to change the link structure so that there is at least some difference, even if it’s just to have the taxonomy slug set as ‘players’ instead, that’s all that it needs.
@catacaustic Yea I figured that and made the profile display ahead of archive, I want to hide the archive page in purpose in order to show the profile (which would include archived news anyway) so that when a user clicks on the taxonomy at the end of a post, etc. it takes them to the profile instead of an archive. (I know I can use redirects but I don’t like using them)
Just wondering if this would cause issues for SEO or anything, if so, I can for sure implement a different URL structure.
