Productive Day Yesterday, Going Good Today & on Target

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In spite of losing yet another external hard drive resulting in data loss, I spun out four hours trying to recover the data to no avail. I lost the four hours to this. I have one working computer with a new hard drive but my data is in danger being on now-aged drives. My best alibi is to refrain from using them until I can get replacements to which I would copy my data to.

Yesterday was one of my best days in my attempt to get current with the WA Super Affiliate Challenge. My performance in this was hindered by the loss of two working computers in my home. My motorcycle was also out of commission with expenive repairs needed on it.

I resolved all of this, mostly in June and finally, after spotty performance during June, I knew I had to set a serious goal to get going. On June 30th I set a steep goal for myself:

Write 40 articles and have 40,000 words written by August 29. This isn't unreasonable so I set it in stone and it is reflected on the SiteContent Goal Setter.

Currently, just over a week into this goal, I have published 9 articles however 7 additional ones are written but not yet published because they need a little tweaking. The writing itself represents 16 articles over the last week representing just over 17,000 words.

Two of yesterday's articles did not come out very good and need some tweaking. the other two however, are outstanding, something I know very much about, with a targeted keyword having over 1000 monthly searches, excellent QSR and very low competition in the low double digits.

I knew this article would be long, and it wound up two parts. The second part is close to 1,700 words. This will be broken down once again into parts II and III. It is now a series. All share the same targeted keyword. The second two will have links back to the first in case their search results bring up one of the two, possibly three installments after the first.

I'm late getting at it today. I've got work to do in the lesson I'm on as it is, plus the first two in the series need images, etc.

I'm where I'm supposed to be though above and beyond the goal I have set for this month, I'm one article behind insofar as writing, a few more insofar as publishing, which I can't do all at once anyway and some of them are queue'd up.

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Hi Daniel, is it really a good idea to have the same keyword in multiple articles? Here is what makes me concerned. If this is something competitive, it is very likely that Google will pull out in the SERP only one post related to the keyword. The problem is that it may be your worst text out of three, they will choose randomly, and as such it might not be ranked well. If this happens you lose the chance for a good traffic. I understand that you will link them all, but it may be useless if the shown text is badly ranked. I hope you see the point.

I have not thought about the dangers involved in this. Yes, they do have the exact keyword and I used it thinking I had more of a chance of more than one of these ranking, and even thought they all eventually would, though some better than others, rather than just one ranking and the others not. I also didn't think about perhaps the least favoured texts appearing, which might actually turn people off.

These are not published yet and are still "in the shop."

I don't know which would be the worst one, and what if it's the first one? One of them would take that place.

There's a couple things I can do in this case. It is now a series and the texts go together. What do you think of these ideas? ...

1. Keep the title in all of them, but in Parts II, III and most likely IV, change the targeted keyword to one relevant to the content that installment and having that in the title as well which of course, would make the titles longer. That part of the title would no longer be the targeted keyword but it would be latent semantic.

2. Do the above but have the original and the new keywords targeted in the sequence. Would this be considered keyword stuffing for having phrases in both the title and one time in the articles, and have them distributed equally in alternate text, filenames of the images, and other SEO elements?

I would hate to break up the set by having completely different titles in them (i.e. one reflecting the targeted keyword for that installment.

In one of them, I could use a similar keyword phrase with over 1000 searches but its competition is considered "normal" in Jaaxy.

This is the third serial on my website and I have essentially done the same thing on the other two. The serials are very recent and none of them are complete yet.

In a situation like this, what would you do?

It is difficult to answer. I used to have a training here on that issue, this is called keyword cannibalization. So you might search in Google about this.

But when I was writing the training I remember that the idea was that bots might get confused and choose just randomly if they have several options with the same targeted keyword. What I also remember is that this makes the content thin, you split it in several posts instead of focusing it in one.

So I would not use the same keyword. But there is nothing exact here of course.

1. What you suggest might be difficult, the title will be too long. If you keep the main title the same, what about the urls?

2. No, I do not see the problem in using several of them in the text. The main issue is that you send mixed signals on what the post is about and in such a way you make your case weaker. I would focus on separate keywords in separate posts and use them properly as they teach here, which means consistently in the title and url and elsewhere. But you can always have the main keyword in all of them used in the texts or as tag word.

Perhaps some more experienced people might share their thoughts. It would be interesting to hear.

Late at my side, I shall get back to you tomorrow if you have some comment.

Yes, I knew when I wrote it was probably about bedtime for you. I will see you tomorrow :)

I did research this and discovered many problems this creates. I had no idea all the ramifications of keywords more than once. This is probably one of the reasons my website has never done very well because this isn't the first time I've done this.

If this is taught here, I've somehow overlooked it.

The series will get unique titles and keywords for each installment. Some installments on the other two serials on the website have not yet been indexed, but are very close to that happening. I'm assuming it's too late for those.

From what I understand, it now becomes necessary to perform 301 redirects to identical copies with different keywords to patch over the defected ones. Not good!

Thank you for looking out for me and bringing this up. I will begin by fixing what is in front of me first and working back. I know what I need to do.

Daniel

OK, glad that you searched it further. Some authors were saying that this cannibalization acts like a disease; a site performs badly in general and you have no clue why. So it was frightening when I was reading about it.

They do not teach this here, but they do suggest always targetting separate keywords.

I am extremely behind on the current Super Affiliate Challenge that has been going on since February and just now in the second lesson (April's.) In that lesson Kyle brings up avoiding keywords that look too much alike on the same website. He said that one might get away with this if a similar keyword was used some 500 articles later!

Wow!

It is ironic you brought this up and the next day, there's Kyle with this information. It's in the video.

In the same video, Kyle presents one of his articles. It's about 4,500 words long! I'm going to simply combine mine back together and be done with it. It's one long article. Fortunately, the other two serials actually do not have shared keywords like I was thinking I had done with them. However, four months ago I wrote an article and forgot about it. I had used the keyword for that article and wrote it again last week! I was dismayed when I found two versions, one completely different than the other but on the same topic, same keyword! I need to have a list of used keywords so this doesn't occur again. One or the other has to be removed.

I also took a step further on the line length of the text before going much farther. I re-introduced the sidebar on the right as it originally was to narrow the content area another 250 pixels. The website is simply way too wide for a content area. I had gotten the idea to remove the sidebar from Jay (Magistudios) who holds the position that, the less distraction and the more clean the content is, the better. I think he uses bigger fonts for one thing and tends to have much shorter presentations.

I was laughing reading about your two posts with the same keyword, yes this happens in our business, we forget, so this is natural but not good of course.

Interesting coincidence about the video you mentioned, have not seen it as I am not in this. Yes, it is a good idea to make a heavy and thorough article, it should be appreciated by Google, the example you mentioned from Kyle is a clear indication of what to do.

As I remember Jay has a sidebar. You can use the sidebar in some posts and remove in another, I know that this option is there all the time but I have never used it, have sidebars in all posts and pages.

Hi All. I just finished doing my story for the website. I would love to share it for feedback. How would I do that?

Any number of ways: First, I will share a link to you about posting links on WA so you will be assured that you are okay to be doing this. It is necessary for you to share your website link in order to get feedback. After the resource I give you, please consider one of the ways to get your requested feedback... 1. Share the link with your request on the chat engine.
2. Ask for feedback using the Question functionality.
3. Write a blog explaining that you need some feedback and then the link to the website.

I hope this helped you :)

Thanks Daniel. I had saved, but not published yet. Would I need to publish first before I can share the link, or can I share the draft site?

Your best option is to go ahead and publish the website however, do the following first.

Go to your website's Dashboard > Settings > Reading

Scroll down until you find, "Search Engine Visibility."

Check the box, save the settings on that page (blue button below.)

Publish the website. The search engines will not index nor follow your web pages until you turn that setting off. Remember to turn it off when you are ready for the search engines so it can be indexed and spidered.

Hope this helps. If you need further help, please reply below and I will assist you.

Thank you!

You are very welcome :)

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