Potential Keyword Cannibalization Issue

[AndySolo]

I'm going to give an example of the potential website I'm going to build. Lets say it's about the individual graduating classes of a certain high school.

I want my targeted niche keyword phrase to bey "graduating classes of example high school". Graduating Class would be the broader keyword.

I would have a home page, which is a blog of recent news covering all of the students who've attended example high school.

From my home page, you're able to access individual pages:

2012 Graduating Class

2011 Graduating Class

2010 Graduating Class

etc....

If I'm internally linking to all of these pages, won't I encounter keyword cannibalization?

or is the link "2012 Graduating Class" unique enough?

[AndySolo]

Thanks for the reply! I appreciate it!

[NakulGoyal]

In my opinion you are fine when you are targeting individual the 3 keyword examples you laid. It's very similar to if I had a website about Toyota Camri. The homepage is where I might target that keyword, but then I might have a separate page for each year/model, so 2000 Toyota Camri, 2001 Toyota Camri and so on. No issues here.

The issue would be if from the 2011 Graduating Class page, you are linking to another page with 2011 Graduating Class as the anchor text. That would be more of an issue.

Does that make sense ? I hope that helps.