Authority site targeting multiple similar keywords
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Hi!
I found a niche I'd really like to work on. I was initially targeting a longtail keyword but there are so many available for this niche I decided to just make an authority site instead. My plan is to have multiple pages with each page targeting a separate long tail keyword in the niche. There's probably going to be over a 100.
Let's say for example it's an organic gardening niche. The website will be setup for the entire niche and the page titles will be structured as such:
Best Organic Gardening Soils
Best Organic Gardening Tools
Best Organic Gardening Seeds
I'd prefer it to be setup this way so I can target traffic for the term with and without "best". I'm wondering if this sounds a bit spammy or is acceptable?
Any other ideas as far as targeting similar longtail keywords in the same niche on a single site?
Thanks so much!
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Thanks for the insight, EGOL. It made me reconsider going this route. I have good experience on the subject, but I'm not sure I want to position myself as an authority on it.
It's a niche where experience is not enough, readers will definitely be looking for experts.
Thanks!
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I like this plan.
Would I invest in this project?
If you are an outstanding writer who has enough knowledge and experience about (for example) organic gardening that you can write 100 unique, substantive, enthusiastic, informative pages, each with unique images that perfectly illustrate the products then I might invest. You need to have been doing this stuff for the past 10 years at least to be able to pull this off. This is what defines "authority". Content authority.
If you don't have that, then I would not invest. Why? There are lots of people who think that they can slap together 100 pages of content or hire someone to create them for $2500. The web is littered with marginal content. Also, the people who are searching for "best organic gardening tools" are going to immediately tell if your knowledge and experience are anything less than exemplary. People looking for "the best" are usually an educated and discriminating group. People looking for "cheap" would not be as discriminating but it would be hard to fool some of them too.
Today, a website that doesn't have excellent content doesn't have a good chance of success. Why? If you don't have that content, nobody is going to share your content with their friends and say that you are awesome. Amazon, Walmart, TrueValue, MotherEarth, Rodale's, Organic Life, PlanetNatural, Burpee, USDA, CornellU are the gorilla retailers and expert content factories that you will be competing with. The people who share content about this space will immediately detect content written for experts by a non-expert.
Rand has a good WhiteBoard Friday on making 10x content. If you have not watched it, check it out.
https://moz.com/blog/why-good-unique-content-needs-to-die-whiteboard-friday
I think that you have a great plan to target a class of keywords. If you have the ability to pull it off then I might invest.
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