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Nick, I've inherited a number of sites with this same problem, some of them quite large sites with rampant singe-keyword landing pages that required a lot of cleanup. In my opinion, in the long run it's definitely worth the effort to prune where you can and get same/similar content combined into one higher quality page. I've had pretty good success in combining pages into topical focused LPs. There's been a lot of talk in the SEO world over the last year about "topics, not keywords", and this discussion is exactly where that idea comes into play. With Google's increasing effort at better understanding keyword intent, they've gotten really good at determining synonymous phrases. As a result, sites with single-keyword LPs are suffering (or will eventually) due to content cannibalization. Let's say you have a LP for "blue widgets" and another for "widgets that are blue", eventually those 2 pages are going to compete with each other and Google will choose to rank neither very well. If you do go down the road to combining pages, here's a few tips: Look in Google Analytics for page metrics like organic entrances, conversions, whatever other KPIs are important for you site Check Moz metrics like Page Authority and links Grab bits of content from the pages going away - just because the overall page is lower quality than others doesn't mean it doesn't have some good content you can 301 redirect the old pages to the new one so search engines, people, and links will still lead to relevant content Update internal links and your XML sitemap to reflect the changes Hope that helps, happy optimizing!

Yes, it will hurt because is "duplicate" content :S

Thank you David! This is exactly what I needed!

I have a ton of Tumblr blogs but their links don't show in any of the tools. I'm hoping that the footer and header links count for something, and that Moz and the other tools just don't spider them because in general it's not worth it. One of my tumblr blogs has a page authority of 39, so it's nice to think of that juice floating around my web properties, but I may be wishful thinking.

Well, I have a few ways that are non-MOZ, so hopefully, I don't get dinged on points Screaming Frog - crawl their site to get a full anatomy and understand how their architecture is built around keywords iSpionage.com - great way to understand keywords they pay and play for Similarweb.com - gives an idea of traffic composition AdWords Keyword planner - you can toss in a website URL and it will give you keyword suggestions. That will give you buckets of keywords they may be using - don't just do their homepage though! Once you have a list of keywords you can use MOZ to build your content and measure against your competition. GL!

What I would do is the following: change the rel canonical back, remove the https version from Search Console (you need to add the https version of the website as well in Search Console) and then fetch and reindex the http version (also from Search Console). So basically, help Google understand this mistake and go back to the http version. Also, check your sitemaps and be sure that you are not including https links there. Hope this helps.

I was curious if you found any resolution to your question about the Software top carousel. I am an SEO for a global software company and have noticed our listings in some of these but not others. They are not showing in any tools I'm using to track search features/snippets. I assume that's because a click on the listing goes to another search (of that product name) rather than to a URL. I've considered adding Software Schema to our pages thinking that might give us a boost. But reading your responses, it sounds like there is no correlation. Have you found anything new about how to optimize for these?

Thanks so much for your time, information & reply. I had not thought about schema having a OfferItemCondition option.  I think that could help differentiate the pages. These are all fairly popular tools, stuff you can buy at home depot with prices between $50 & $350. Here is the site if I can post a link  https://bigskytool.com/hitachi-reconditioned-tools.html As much as separate URLs will be more to manage I think it may be best. New vs Refurbished are two definitely different products. When we run a sale on a particular Grade, I need a way to link directly to that grade When we run adwords and google merchant center, we need a way to filter our just refurbished or just new. Here is what I am thinking as of now New - Unique  URL with self referencing canonical URL. Schema of OfferItemCondition of New Grade A - Unique URL with self referencing canonical URL Schema of OfferItemCondition of Refurbished Grace C - Unique URL with canonical URL pointing to Grade A Schema of OfferItemCondition of Refurbished Grace D - Unique URL with canonical URL pointing to Grade A Schema of OfferItemCondition of Refurbished This would make the distinction between New and Refurbished Products Then in Refurbished products there will be duplicate content but hopefully the canonical URLS should help. Ideally Google would rank the New Page for when someone searches for the product and Google would rank the "Grade A" product page when they search for the Refurbished version. I will essentially have 4 pages with very similar content, hopefully the canonical URLs and Item OfferCondition will help the search engines know, which (two) versions of the page I think is important. I will also have prominent links that show the different grades with the different prices in the product description to help with human usability. Any flaws with this logic? or better approaches? Amazon sort of gets into this with books, there is one book but it can come in multiple formats Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle, Audible, AudioCD Thanks! -- Steven

Correct, and yes the trust factor definitely makes sense to me. I just didn't know if anyone had a case study or experience of a business that wasn't doing much SEO, decided to get BBB Accredited, embedded the BBB badge on their website, and then saw a change in rankings due to it. I have never used the BBB to search a business either and think that it may be more of a correlation than a causation, as a business that decides to get BBB accredited is also probably investing in SEO, a blog, other high DA directory listing, content marketing or a combination of marketing efforts that could be leading to high local rankings.

Surely before you used blogger or something like that. Once upon a time something similar happened to me!

It is best to have one blog on each site which posts cover relevant and helpful topics related to the website. Without much context or details this is somewhat harder to answer, but you always want to provide relevant and helpful content on your site's blog. Guest blogging can be a beneficial SEO Strategy if it is on a niche website and topically related blogs, but working on providing great, shareable and helpful content on your own website's blog should take priority,

Very happy to hear this!

Excellent resource, thank you!

No I'm not talking about faking anything. The question is, does Google asses on page metrics as part of their search algorithm using the onpage metrics from traffic via all mediums, or only traffic via organic as a medium. Not sure your answer makes much sense. No worries though. Cheers, Gill.

Hello Lisa, Thank you for your fast response! Good to hear that Moz has plans for a keyword API! We are greatly looking forward to that! In the meantime we'll make due with the current functionalities. Kind regards, Bart

I have a question!  Did you solve this problem? I saw on your page https://www.theis-vine.dk/vin-fra-frankrig/champagne/ that you continue to have keyword stuffing. It is visible with a single search on the page (see Image 2 attached)! Moz On-Page Grader sees only 22 instead of 32, anyway is it keyword stuffing. Is it important to me if you fix the problem! And it is important for me to understand if this keyword stuffing really hurt in SEO ranking. I always fix this problem but now I have a problem with a non-plural keyword. Thank you! Wait for your feedback. lRcx9 lC9VS

Hi, Content is content irrespective of the type of site it is hosted on. As long as the article is good enough for Google to want to rank it, then I wouldn't worry about this. I would recommend you have a read of this post: https://moz.com/blog/case-study-ranking-high-volume-keyword It covers a whole host of great information from choosing the content through to best ways to promote it. -Andy

Hi Alexandre, Google should have no problem indexing URLs with Cyrillic characters, but it could be the mix of language that is causing Google to attempt to decode those characters. But even if that were the case, this should not result in a 500 error but a 404 (not found) for those resultant decoded URLs. It looks like there are 301 redirects in place for these URLs now, pointing to their EN counterparts - has that resolved this issue? Perhaps it was faulty redirect logic in the first place that caused the 500 errors? Thanks, Mike