How to fix keyword cannibalization?
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Hello All,
I am a webmaster of http://www.bannerbuzz.com and I have some problem in keyword cannibalization in my store, i have lots of categories related to banners, and in Banner section my my keyword is vinyl banners and my all categories urls structure connected with vinyl banners, I am definitely sure that keyword cannibalization issue in my website and i want to resolve it as soon as possible, so can anyone please help me how can i resolve this issue with effective way or without affected my keyword ranking?
My Keywords
Vinyl Banners : http://www.bannerbuzz.com/full-color-vinyl-banners.html
Custom Banners : http://www.bannerbuzz.com/custom-vinyl-banners.html
Outdoor Banners : http://www.bannerbuzz.com/outdoor-vinyl-banners.htmlMy 1 keyword vinyl banners is affected, so can anyone please look at these pages and let me know how can i resolve keyword cannibalization from my website.?
Thanks
BannerBuzz.com -
Hi there,
A relatively old post on this from the Moz blog might be of use: http://moz.com/blog/how-to-solve-keyword-cannibalization
Have you done any link building to the primary vinyl banners page? When a range of different pages rank for one query, it can often indicate a problem with the strength of the primary page, with site hierarchy not favouring that page as the canonical source of generic information about the topic.
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Hi Andy Drinkwater
Thanks a lot for your information, but sometime i can see my main keyword (vinyl banners) for 2 links like home page (http://www.bannerbuzz.com) and Vinyl Banners Category page (http://www.bannerbuzz.com/full-color-vinyl-banners.html) even i can see my review site (http://reviews.bannerbuzz.com) as vinyl banners in Google SERP.
So according to you what is the best practice for resolve this problem. If you have some other suggestion for improvement my website, then please let me know...
Thanks
Banner Buzz -
Hi,
While it is a possibility, it isn't that likely to be a word in a URL that would trigger a penalty. In what you show above, they don't seem like particularly spammy URL's as they describe what the page is about.
Keyword cannibalisation is more about when you have many site pages that result in more than one trying to rank for the same phrases.
There is a really good post from Rand on this subject here. Well worth a read
-Andy
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