Keyword self cannibalization
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Hello,
I'm confused about the recommendations for avoiding keyword self cannibalization.
I have a niche blog and some of my sticky posts on the homepage contain my site's main keyword in their title.
For example, say if my homepage has "dog training" as it's main keyword, then there are going to be links to more longtail pages with titles such as "dog training London", "dog training Liverpool" etc.
When I do this SeoMoz's on-page optimization tool tells me that this is keyword self cannibalization. I am building links to the inner pages using the longtail keywords only.
1. Do I need to rename pages with just "london" and "liverpool" etc and remove "dog training" from those links?
2. What is the best thing to do in this situation?
Thanks,
Kevin
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You're doing it right, you don't want to target the internal page for just "liverpool"
Remember though, anchor texts on links still count as content on a page so don't over do it by having 50 links on the home page with "dog training xxx" "dog training yyy" "dog training "zzz" of that main page will look keywords stuffed. Use extreme moderation, it's better to have less instances of the main keyword than too many.
Remember to use synonyms to "dog obedience schools in liverpool" for example, based on keyword research.
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