I'm ranking Position 7,8,11,12,13,14 &15 but would rather one page top three - are they competing?
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For the search phrase "office design birmingham" in the uk. I have mutiple pages ranking in position 7,8,11,12,13,14 & 15!
This is all very well but are they somehow competing? Am i better off doing something different to get one or two into the top 3 rather than 7 in the top 15?!
Many thanks for your opinion and advice.
James
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Use the most relevant page for each keyword.
If you want to target any keyword make a page or tweak a page that is its closest match (that is if the page is not being ranked for anything else.
people make the mistake these days of trying to rank too many keywords for a single page.
Think about it the pages you create should be designed and posted around the user, each page Title, Description, H1 should be different, from the 4 pages i looked at on your site you are targeting the same keyword on 3 of the 4 different pages your kind of self cannibalising those keywords, Google is a little unsure what is the page it should be ranking for.
Plus the Birmingham page has very little text, and its out ranking the home page
add around 200 words to that page targeting that keyword and you will see a big improvement
Good Luck
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I'm not sure if this sort of duplication is going to be a long term effect. I think this is some sort of temporary problem arising from the Penguin update. I raised it as an odd result in another post (see link) and I think (maybe that should be hope rather than think) it will get resolved over time:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/anyone-else-seeing-increased-duplication-of-domains-since-penguin
I don't think this sort of duplication makes for a good set of results.
Gary
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Mmm just searched again and I'm and they're ranking 6,7 18,19,20 - may be doing a google dance and changed recently....
When you say big difference - does that mean the pages with similar titles keywords are actually dragging down the top ranked pages? So for example tweaking 7 18 19 and 20 away from 6 will actually help 6 rank at say 2 or 3? Or are those pages helping the top pages to "float"?!
To the same extent I want the first page of "office design london" to rank well...but could the archive page 2,3,4 etc...should that be hidden from search for better SEO?
Many thanks!
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I Just searched that term here in the UK and i don't see any sites with that many pages in the UK, so you may be looking at custom searches, clear your browsing history and try again,
If the site that i did see come up around 4 times is you then, the reason for this is most of the pages have pretty much the same titles and descriptions with just very few words different
Rank Each page different than means content , titles and descriptions i am sure then you will see a big difference
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