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That has made me feel so much better about what I am doing and has sent the silly gremlin packing from my head.

As a newbie to SEO I have been reading lots of the info on this site and this idea came to me as a sort of digestion of what I read and what I felt would be good for my site. It is great to be able to ask a question and get the thoughts and opinions of those who are more expert than I when not certain if doing something will help or hinder progress.

Many thanks for the input. I appreciate it.

Jean

Hi Marcus,

I wonder if you found my site? Of the 4 (sensible) suggestions you gave I have 3 pages with pretty much those exact phrases as their title and one that is very similar.!

In total I have around 100 pages on the site and am currently attempting to improve the on-page SEO for them in order to drive more traffic to these supporting information pages.

Sounds like I may have a better grip of this than I thought!

Thank you so much for the help and information. It was very useful to me and so reassuring to someone in a world that is somewhat alien to them.

And the cream really is magic! I know 'cos I use it myself and my husband doesn't have to lock up all the knives anymore.

Thanks Carlos.

SEOMoz says the domain authority is 44 and page authority is 52

I think the content is highly relevant, I would 'cos I wrote it, So I am looking good on that front then I reckon.

Learning this SEO thing seems to raise more questions than I have answers for but I am getting there slowly I think.

I am a little confused as to how search engines see and rank keywords. Let me explain.

If I have a fairly long tail keyword such as "buy natural progesterone cream uk"  will the search engine also break this up into smaller parts such as "buy natural progesterone uk"," buy progesterone cream uk", "natural progesterone uk"  and so on or will it only see the words that are next to each other like "progesterone cream uk".

Also where does cannibalization come into this?

I really appreciate any help I can get with this that furthers my understanding. Thanks.

Ah ha. Maybe this is why. I have been puzzling all day over something. Briefly, on 22nd May my ranking for my number one keyword fell from 3 to around 50. My traffic dropped from about 180 visitors per day to about 35 and my income was halved as I have many repeat buyers that kept me afloat.

This morning I got my number 3 ranking back. Woo-Hoo. I just want it to stay there a while, preferably forever, I hated all those crappy sites outranking me