Keyword Canabalisation and my solution
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Hi.
According to one guy, in this thread: http://www.seomoz.org/q/good-seo-titles, the Meta Title, H1 Tag Title on the product page, and the category listing pages should be different to avoid keyword canabilisation.
One problem I noticed in my website after reading about this topic, is that all my printers have the keyword sentence :"refurbished printer", yes 99% of the products are refurbished but in that way according to the answer in the above post I am competing against self, too many pages (1000) with the same keywords on it.
So I decided to make some changes and I I would like to know the opinion of the experts here, I did this only for one product, then I would of course need to this for lots of products.
1. I created a different meta title. check here please
http://www.theprinterdepo.com/hp-color-laserjet-cp2025n-printer-new
2. In the product page itself, I removed the condition from the name of the product, instead I put the template, NAME - MODEL -CONDITION.
3. In the category listing page I havent made any change yet, it still shows the product name only
http://www.theprinterdepo.com/new-printers/color-laser-new-printers
Check 1st row, 4th column.
Is this a good approach?
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You mentioned wanting to appear for these variations:
hp cp2025n
cp2025n printer
hp cp20205n printer
or just cp2025n
Why not add them into H2 tags within the same product page, so that you cover each? Just a suggestion.
One H2 could be "Why the HP CP2025n?", another could be "HP CP2025n Printer Product Specs", etc.
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Can you please explain further, you meant to set the entire PRODUCT DESCRIPTION as an h2? or specific parts? keywords only?
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Sounds like an excellent opportunity to use some h2's within the description, don't you agree?
In terms of worrying about Google picking up a product page instead of your category or keyword-themed "refurbished printers" page, just make sure you have a STRONG page with plenty of internal links, possibly even within a few product descriptions, blog posts, your HTML sitemap, etc. If it's a category, your breadcrumb system will automatically create dozens or hundreds of links to the page naturally.
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so one thing I could do is to put the template backwards in the breadcrump
condition - name - model.
Then breadcrumb, h1 and meta title would be different
What I want is to avoid keyword canibalization for the term refurbished printers, which is in almost 500 printers we have, and that I just understood yesterday with your explanation.
Probably on google users will search in 3 different ways
hp cp2025n
cp2025n printer
hp cp20205n printer
or just cp2025n
I was thinking that maybe I should remove the word laserjet...,
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It looks great to me. However, there's still a long tail term repeated in the title, meta, breadcrumb, h1 and twice in the content:
- HP COLOR LASERJET CP2025N PRINTER
You'll probably rank well for that term with a little improvement to your internal linking and a few backlinks from other websites that list where you can buy this printer. It also couldn't hurt to experiment with comparison shopping engines. Google claims to not use browser data (Chrome), but has admitted to using traffic data in the past.
If it were me, I'd figure out a way to get more semantic variation of my keyword on this page, reduce the density for the phrase above and mix things up a bit. Unless of course you want this exact phrase exactly as it is to be the main inbound marketing traffic driver for this product?
I'd love to see what you come up for on your category page title and meta.
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I was thinking that probably I should use the same template in the category listing pages?
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