Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Hi Davninia,

Thank you for touching one of my main concerns - I didn't really mention this, but I was very worried about the risk of diluting my other well-ranking keywords.

I am happy to report that w have invested countless hours in tailoring each of our product pages to be unique. While they do contain common keywords and phrases the majority of their descriptions are quite unique.

3. I'm glad to hear this - it was actually one of the first strategies we employed (and basically at the root of my question about pages competing against each other.)

4. Great idea.

6. We've been doing that for a few months now. It can get quite expensive when there's no nearby organic link, but a sale for us is one that the competition doesn't get.

Your last suggestion is really interested -  I didn't realize that was something that could be done. I'll be using that regularly from here on in I'm sure. Thanks!

Hi,

We recently discovered that a product we sell has a misnomer, and that a ton of people take to Google and use variations of that misnomer while trying to find us. Unfortunately we don't rank in Google for this keyword, and its costing us thousands in lost sales.

I've been slowly building the misnomer into the content of our site in hopes that the spiders will pick up on it. It has started to work in the last couple weeks, but we're nowhere near the top (and we are #1 and #2 for most of our other prime keywords.)

The site which sells the product is specialized, and only sells this specific product (in different models, but they're all the same product essentially.) With that in mind, I'm trying to figure out the best way to attack a new keyword.

I know that normally you would dedicate a specific page (in an eCommerce store probably that  product's own page) to employ your SEO tactics. However, because this site specializes in this product and offers different models and information about it I'm confused about the best approach.

Does Google take into consideration the entire site a s whole, or are the pages within my site competing against each other for rank?

A new campaign of mine is supposed to update its keyword rankings on Wednesdays but as of Thursday morning it didn't happen. I've got the original stats from the first few keywords I added when the campaign was set up, but nothing for the keywords that were added in the next day.

Previous experience with this tool was pretty reliable so I'm just wondering if anyone is experiencing the same thing.

Here's a good discussion on the issue of footer links:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-penguin-question-re-footer-links

You can make all the changes that SEOmoz suggests, but at the end of the day so much of your ranking in Google still comes down to how important they think you are. While SEO is vital, requirements for having a top ranking site hasn't changed in years: who is linking to your content, how much weight do those sites carry, and how good is your content? Next to that you have to look at who you're competing against.

Without knowing the whole story it's hard to know 100% what Google would make of this. However, I don't really see anything that would be considered a violation. Are you not concerned with what happens to the 3rd site from here on in?

So you have 2 sites that "point" (do you mean link?) to a 3rd site (your store) and you want to redirect all three of them to a 4th site?

Make sure that you're doing all you can to categorize your content. H1/H2/H3, paragraph tags, etc. I can't say exactly how they do it, but from experience it appears that crawlers are pretty good about judging where your main messages are placed. And of course, as Matt Cutts has explicity said again and again, good content trumps SEO. Not sure I believe him 100% though.

What kind of pages are they? Is it something you can code your CMS/Cart/etc to auto populate with relevant content?

The seomoz bot will automatically take notice of any changes on its next crawl.