It Doesn’t Matter Where You Point Links, Google Will Pick The Page

[VividLime]

Hi Guys,

I have a site that ranks quite well in a very competitive vertical and the company is now planning to do a site relaunch.

SEO is very important to them and all of the sites within in the top 10 have the primary keyword in the urls example

search: key1 key2

site.com/key1-key2/
site.com/ key1key2/
site.com/key1key2.php

Our site is the only one that is positioned within the top 10 without the keyword in the url and homepage only listing

so the top 10 result looks like

search: key1 key2

site.com/key1-key2/ site.com/ key1key2/ site.com/key1key2.php oursite.com sitekey2.com/key1-key2/
key1site.com/key1key2.html

Currently we do not have a separate landing page for the target keyword hence why link building is focused on the homepage.

As part of the consultation, I recommended we create a landing page for our primary keyword so we get  **oursite.com/key1-key2/  **and shift the on-page keyword balance towards this page.

the hope is, we get

search: key1 key2

site.com/key1-key2/ site.com/ key1key2/ site.com/key1key2.php oursite.com/key1-key2 sitekey2.com/key1-key2/
key1site.com/key1key2.html

Would Google simply replace my current domain only list  for the most relevant url  for a term?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Or would  i need to build links into the new url for the change to take place.

what i'm hoping for and expecting, is for somthing like this to happen

http://www.seowizz.net/2011/04/it-doesnt-matter-where-you-point-links-google-will-pick-the-page.html

[Confetti_Wedding]

Hi,

I had a similar problem where our homepage was out ranking the target page. It was down to a number of things but mainly the fact that a lot of links using the keyword anchor text were pointed at the homepage. I would be surprised if your new page replaces the homepage in the SERPs soon after launching it. You'll need to do a few things first.

• Either build new links or get the existing links repointed to your new landing page
• Make sure your on-page SEO is spot on
• Use your internal links effectively to point to your new page using the targeted keyword

Hope that helps,

Brendan.