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I currently have a home page with a "select your area" link to the area pages. Are you saying that it would be better to create 36 links form the directory site
Are you saying that it would be better to create 36 links pointing to the home page or make 36 links pointing to the individual area pages?
A crawl of my site started on the 8th July & is still going on - is there something wrong???
I have a Driving School website www.1stclassdriving.co.uk.
The site is structured geographically with 36 area pages, one
page per area post code and one page per Driving Instructor.
I am trying to develop links and have found a site (da91 pa
63) where I can create area links to each of my area pages if I
wish.
Is it best to just create one link to the root page or
should I create 36 individual links to each area page? - which is most valuable?
Is there anyway that I could be able to target "Driving Lessons" alone for the home page and "Driving lessons+ city" for the others?
I have a Driving School website www.1stclassdriving.co.uk.
The site is structured geographically with one page per Area
(post code) and one page per Driving Instructor.
There are links from each Area page to the instructors
working in the Area.
The principal search keyword that I want to optimise on is
"Driving Lessons"
The thinking was to target each individual Area page for
"Driving lessons in xxx" where xxx is the particular geographic area
and each particular Instructor to "Driving Lessons in yyy" where yyy
is the main town .
The ideal would be that a search on "Driving
Lessons" would pick up the root page - search on an area, say "Driving
Lessons in Croydon" would pick up the Croydon area page and a search on a
town, say "Driving lessons in Mitcham" would pick up the Instructor
that covered that town page.
However having read Rebeccas Keyword research guide I am
concerned that this strategy is wrong because of the volume of pages that use
"Driving Lessons in xxxx".
Does this fall foul of "Keyword cannibalization" ?
and if so what is the best way of being able to achieve our objective?
Did a semoz analysis of site www.1stclassdriving.co.uk and it came up with 484 pages with duplicate titles and 484 with duplicate content. Also gave me a 531st ranking for search term "Driving Lessons" (with many smaller schools with better rankings)- so I think that I may have a problem
1-Duplicate titles - I have many area pages - one for each of the post codes that we cover (some 40 odd) Each page is titled "Driving Lessons in "xxx" where xxx is the area.
Plus each Instructor has their own page which is tiled "Driving Lessons in xxx" where xxx is the more local towns/areas covered.
Is this the use of the term Driving Lessons xxx on each page the problem? The report doesnt seem to make this clear -it simply lists each page on the site
2- Duplicate content puzzles me as the content does differ although each instructor page has probably 80% content derived from a master page.
Attach screenshot - hope someone can help
Many thanx
Brian
A crawl of my site started on the 8th July & is still going on - is there something wrong???