Title: Permalink setup affecting SEO?
Last modified: July 25, 2017

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# Permalink setup affecting SEO?

 *  [Jaytarts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaytarts/)
 * (@jaytarts)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-setup-affecting-seo/)
 * _[ Moderator note: [moved to Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/before-posting-in-everything-wordpress/?view=all).]_
 * I have a set up where I have a custom post type and a custom taxonomy called “
   player”, however, both are using the same link set up.
 * example.com/player/name – for the archive page of the custom taxonomy
    example.
   com/player/name – for the custom post
 * The custom post type is the player profile WITH the archives of that player, 
   so there is an archive + other info.
 * Is this a big NO in terms of SEO? or Does this work fine?

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 *  [Bob Cristello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gntmidnight/)
 * (@gntmidnight)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-setup-affecting-seo/#post-9347732)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [Jaytarts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaytarts/)
 * (@jaytarts)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-setup-affecting-seo/#post-9347791)
 * 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
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-setup-affecting-seo/#post-9347895)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [Jaytarts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaytarts/)
 * (@jaytarts)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-setup-affecting-seo/#post-9347910)
 * [@catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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.

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## Tags

 * [customization](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/customization/)
 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)
 * [post-type](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-type/)
 * [taxonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/taxonomy/)

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 * Last reply from: [Jaytarts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaytarts/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-setup-affecting-seo/#post-9347910)
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