Penalty for on-page optimizing too many pages?

[monster99]

Hey in the process of building a new site in the fitness niche - targeting keywords such as:

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| how to get a flat stomach |
| how to get rid of belly fat fast |
| how to get rid of belly fat for women |
| how to get rid of love handles fast |
| how to get skinny |
| how to have more energy |
| how to loose weight fast |
| how to lose love handles |
| how to lose love handles fast |
| how to lose lower belly fat |

All these keywords get decent search volume.

My question, alot of the content for these keywords would be similar for example - "how to get a flat stomach", "how to lose love handles" and "how to get skinny" would pretty much have similar content.

I could build a single page for all these keywords but i loose all the ranking benefits from doing on-page optimization such as creating a page for each of these keywords and optimizing it for each of these keywords (e.g. putting the keyword in the URL and Title)

But if i build individual pages, to me it doesn't look natural optimizing multiple pages for the keyword terms, plus i loose the benefits of building a single page (e.g. less costly, not as much outreach activity required, etc)

You could argue however that if you create individual pages for each of these keywords you are addressing the query directly as theres a slight difference between "how to lose love handles and how to get a flat stomach. But i guess thats up to google to decide.

So how would you approach this?

Cheers,

Chris

[irvingw]

each are different targets and need individual pages and unique content to rank well for their search

how to lose love handles and how to get a flat stomach are similar topics but if the content is written completely different it doesn't matter. if you use one article and slightly modify it for a second page then you may have an issue because it's spinning and is not entirely unique. be creative

[Asher]

Yes your keywords are certainly related to one another, but each deserve their own post.  So why not pick your primary keyword and two secondary target keywords and put them in the post.  Then use your secondary keywords as links to your other posts about those keywords.  Increase the amount of juice, cover your bases, and be relevant.  Just a suggestion.