After Maccabees should I consolidate some of my content?
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I'm a local dentist and have a very successful 'veneers price' blog page. People really want to know the cost of veneers and it gets hundreds of visits a day locally and nationally. I also have a main Veneers services page talking about how you get veneers and what they are etc. This gets lots of local visitors but less nationally.
I have recently tried to replicate it's success with 'dental implants price', 'tooth whitening price' and others but they've just bombed. I replicated the style and the blogs are similar in structure, same links etc - but obviously totally unique content and topics. The price articles get no search and it's seemed to hurt the main services pages too. They are all linked to one another in a systematic and helpful-to-the-user hierarchy and structure.
Maccabees doesn't seem to have made any difference to the veneers traffic but should I consolidate the other price articles into their respective main pages or leave it and see what happens. They have been at less than position 20 for months now. Whereas if you type in Veneers Cost UK, you'll probably see us in the featured snippet and position one or two.
How do I know whether google regards the price of something to be a different topic from that thing and worthy of it's own page? Do they just want everything all on one massive page? That seems a bit clumsy to me.
Thanks!
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I'm so glad if that helped, Ed!
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Thanks Miriam. I was totally barking up the wrong tree there. Thanks for helping me out.
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Hi Ed,
I would highly recommend watching this Whiteboard Friday if you've not yet seen it:
https://moz.com/blog/optimizing-for-rankbrain-whiteboard-friday
Please, spend a few minutes watching that and see if it provides further clarity.
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