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Hi Tyler,

thank you for your quick reply. This is definitely great input, but yeah, my description of the problem wasn't quite clear. Sorry for that.

The issue right now is, that we have category pages with high keyword stuffing/ cannibalization. Following the example from above, our "motorcycle jackets" category page looks somewhat like this:

<a>Motorcycle jacket R2000</a>

<a>Motorcycle jacket R4000</a>

<a>Motorcycle jacket SuperCool</a>

<a>Motorcycle jacket Terminator</a>

etc.

And since the Motorcycle jacket category page shall be/ is the one ranking for keywords like "motorcycle jacket", we have a keyword cannibalization here.

On the other hand, if someone is searching for "motorcycle jacket R2000" if want to ensure the product page of the R2000 jacket is shown, not the product pages for the kit or the pants.

Hi!

among other we sell motorcycle clothing, which you can buy as a set (both jacket and pants) or single piece. Currently we name the products with the labeling in the beginning, e.g:

Motorcycle pants R2000, Motorcycle jacket R2000, Motorcycle kit R2000

Motorcycle pants R4000, Motorcycle jacket R4000, Motorcycle kit R4000

This is causing keyword stuffing and cannibalization in the category pages as all the product names include important keywords.

On the other hand it would be beneficial to keep the labeling in the name for search queries for the exact product.

What be your recommendations? I tend to take the labeling away.

Hi,

the website I'm working for is loosing rankings for one specific keyword and since there haven't been any bigger onsite changes I assume it's the back links.

The company bought some exact anchor text links in the past, so I went through those. One specific one attracted my attention: It's a site wide link which creates over 80% of the back link profile to the specific website.

There was only one catch: part of this bought anchor text campaign is another highly targeted anchor text which is not negatively affected by the rankings.

Still I didn't like the feel of this so I ran the seomoz keyword difficulty report. And there I discovered an interesting pattern:

For keyword A we are the only ones in the top10 with such a high percentage of exact keyword usage. But for keyword B, which didn't loose rankings our top10 competitor have an even more over-optimized keyword usage or much weaker back link profile.

So now I wonder if it could actually be the case, that we loose rankings for keyword A since our competitors have a more natural profile, but for Keyword B it has no negative effect due to the worse competition.

Thanks in advance for your help!