Tons of Long-Tail Conversion Terms -- What Should We Do?
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A friend of mine runs a website that recently got hit with Penguin.
His site now longer has authority.
But he does have a long list of very similar longtail phrases.
Example:
- Dog Food for Cheap
- Cheap Dog Food
- Organic Dog Food
- Home Made Dog Food
- Dog Chow
- Organic Dog Chow
Basically, these are all about the same thing.
But, he'd love to write content that has the exact longtail phrase in the title.. but not over-stuff it.
He feels that if he puts it on the same site, it might look too spammy in G's eyes. But how would one go about doing it?
I realize he should "Theme" this info -- but what does that really mean? Its all kind of the same theme.. IS there a way to do it in wordpress with categories? Please -- we'd love your help.
We are also curious about how to run ANY site in the post-penguin world without adding redundant content.
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What Rand talk about this here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-on-googles-penguin-update
Also, Penguin isn't really a penalty. Panda seems more of a penalty. Penguin is more of "you're trying to game the algorithm" and you have those characteristics on your site (or offsite)
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