How I Diagnosed and Fixed Keyword Cannibalization Between Two Nearly-Identical Blog Posts

I thought publishing more useful content would automatically give my website more opportunities to rank. Then I noticed something uncomfortable. Two articles on my site were covering almost the same subject. Both were useful. Both were properly indexed. Both answered similar questions. And both were competing for overlapping search intent. I had accidentally created a small SEO architecture problem inside my own blog. I'm building "SabrTime.in" ( https://sabrtime.in/ ), a small Islamic companion app focused on practical digital tools for everyday worship. As a solo developer, I also manage the website, content, SEO, and product development myself. While working on the site's content, I published two articles around Tasbeeh: How to Do Tasbeeh — A Complete Guide Digital Tasbeeh Counter: How It Works & Why Muslims Are Switching The first article is about the practice itself. The second is supposed to be about the technology and use case of digital Tasbeeh counters. Sounds different enough, right? At first, I thought so too. But when I looked at the actual content and search intent, the overlap became obvious. The Problem Wasn't Duplicate Content This is where SEO gets misunderstood. Keyword cannibalization doesn't necessarily mean you have two pages containing identical paragraphs. The more interesting problem is intent overlap. If two URLs are trying to satisfy essentially the same searcher's question, a search engine has less information about which page should be the primary result. For example, imagine these two pages: /page-a "How to Do Tasbeeh" /page-b "Digital Tasbeeh Counter" Their titles are different. But if both pages explain: what Tasbeeh means how many times to recite it common Tasbeeh counts the same hadith how to count Tasbeeh why Muslims use a counter FAQs about Tasbeeh ...then the distinction between the pages starts becoming blurry. That was happening on my site. The two articles were not technically duplicates. But parts of their search intent were d