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March 17, 2026

# What Is Keyword Cannibalization Checker? A Practical Guide to Keyword Cannibalization

Cannibalization is a quiet SEO problem because nothing looks broken — both pages rank, just not as well as either one would alone, since you're competing against yourself in the results.

Keyword Cannibalization Checker exists to solve one specific, recurring problem: keyword cannibalization is easy to get wrong by hand, tedious to check manually across a whole site, and quick to fix once you can actually see it clearly. That's the gap Keyword Cannibalization Checker fills.

In practice, this usually comes up in one of two situations — you're setting things up correctly from the start on a new page or site, or you're auditing something that already exists and trying to find what's silently broken. Both are worth doing regularly, not just once.

A few things worth keeping in mind:
- When you find two pages targeting the same query, pick the stronger one (more backlinks, more traffic) and consolidate the weaker page into it with a 301 redirect.
- If both pages should genuinely exist, differentiate their targeting clearly — one broad, one specific — and adjust titles/headers so search engines can tell them apart.
- Check Search Console's Performance report filtered by query — multiple URLs from your own site appearing for the same query is the clearest sign of cannibalization.

It's also worth knowing what commonly goes wrong here. Publishing near-duplicate posts targeting the same keyword because different team members didn't check what already existed. And avoiding these is usually less about effort and more about knowing to check in the first place.

This connects to a few other things worth getting right at the same time — see Keyword Density Checker and Search Intent Cluster Tool for the related pieces of the same technical foundation.

If you want to check this on your own site right now, Keyword Cannibalization Checker runs directly in your browser, free, with no account required.

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