post in two categories bad for SEO ?

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penaxr

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on my personal blog I have multiple categories, I have an post I made that fits into two categories. I checked both, Can this hurt my SEO for this post and future posts if I do this ? I've read about keyword cannibalization but I'm not sure if this is related.

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Is your site category is indexed in Google? if yes, then, yes it hurts
 
I wouldn't do this, unless you have some type of news site.
 
Zshan said:
Is your site category is indexed in Google? if yes, then, yes it hurts
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Yes they are set to index in rankmath.

Blackhat Lifter said:
I wouldn't do this, unless you have some type of news site.
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its not news site, but its not a product site either. Its personal blog I give tutorials, tips and news about a particular niche
 
It's probably fine and not the worst thing that you should worry about. Just have unique descriptions for each category and do NOT have categories in URLs. If your page is accessible from multiple locations on your website, it should always have the same URL. Otherwise you are creating multiple pages with the exact same content which you don't want to do.
 
No, it can not hurt your SEO.
The same would be if you link to your post from 2 different pages, so categories are only listing your post and this is totally safe.
All major websites do it.
 
GrizzlyBeardMan said:
It's probably fine and not the worst thing that you should worry about. Just have unique descriptions for each category and do NOT have categories in URLs. If your page is accessible from multiple locations on your website, it should always have the same URL. Otherwise you are creating multiple pages with the exact same content which you don't want to do.
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I use the url syntax %post_name% only. The categories are not in the urls.

inserte said:
No, it can not hurt your SEO.
The same would be if you link to your post from 2 different pages, so categories are only listing your post and this is totally safe.
All major websites do it.
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Yeah thats why I was asking, but there is so much different opinions on the subject.
 
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