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How To Tackle Keyword Cannibalisation & Dominate the SERPs

How To Tackle Keyword Cannibalisation & Dominate the SERPs

This is my recent BrightonSEO (September 2023) talk about How To Tackle Keyword Cannibalisation and Dominate the SERPs.

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September 14, 2023
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  1. How To Tackle Keyword
    Cannibalisation & Dominate
    the SERPs
    Charlie Whitworth
    Whitworth SEO
    https://speakerdeck.com/whitworthseo
    @whitworthseo

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  2. My Grandad, Frank Minor
    Meet Frank Minor
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  3. For Frank, im not a United fan but huge Liverpool fan to this day
    I Kept My Word…
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  4. Current Football Feels
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  5. Prudent Strategy Essential
    Shit against the wall strategy just doesn’t work
    Buying the “best” players in the world doesn’t guarantee trophies
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  6. How To Tackle Keyword Cannibalisation &
    Dominate the SERPs
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  7. 5 Years Since My Last BrightonSEO Talk…
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  8. Since My Last Brighton SEO Talk…
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  9. Liverpool Got Great Again…
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  10. Liverpool Got Sad Again…
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  11. We’ve Had Four “Prime Ministers”
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    This Lettuce Lasted Longer Than One

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  13. We’ve Had Over 50 Major Changes To The
    Algo
    At least 12 of these being
    Core Updates
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  14. CUs Reward Reliable People First Content
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  15. What Even Is Organic
    Keyword Cannibalisation
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  16. What Is Organic Keyword Cannibalisation?
    “Where URLs on the same domain compete for
    organic non brand rankings, confusing search
    engines and creating SERP flux.
    This dilutes the visibility and performance of all
    pages, hampering overall SEO performance”
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  17. Keyword Cannibalisation Is Inevitable
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  18. Panda Created a Huge Saturation of Content
    on the Web
    Before 2011, the SERPs were
    horrific
    Then came Panda, which was the
    precursor to Core Updates
    Spawned the term “content is
    king”
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  19. Search Intent Is Key
    PLPs
    PDPs
    Blogs & Articles
    Guides & Resources
    (Evergreen)
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    Ranking these various page types requires optimising for their specific search intent

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  20. Obsession With Content Has Caused Over
    Optimisation
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  21. Why Should You Care About
    Keyword Cannibalisation
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  22. Meet Dom, CEO off Off The Grain
    Humble Yorkshire
    Business
    Boomed in COVID Building
    Furniture
    Demand Then Lulled
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  23. whitworthseo.com // @whitworthseo // #brightonseo // keyword cannibalisation
    Now Outranking Etsy, eBay & Wayfair!!!!
    (WTF)

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    SEO Visibility Being Rewarded By Various
    Updates
    Combination of Addressing
    Keyword Cannibalisation
    Optimising for Reviews
    System (PRU) Guidelines
    Pruning Dated and Low
    Engagement URLs

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    Vanity Metrics Correlate With Non-Brand
    Traffic
    Recent surge in organic non brand clicks has come during the quietest
    month of the year for the sector

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  26. Reviewing PLP & PDP for Cannibalisation
    Client Who Loves Writing Copy
    Sprinkling Keywords Over PDP but not PLP
    Caused Major Cannibalisation
    We Were Able To Resolve Cannibalisation,
    Optimise for PRU and Boost PLPs
    Simultaneously
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  27. Crucially, Impact on Clicks & Revenue
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    YoY Organic Revenue: Up 215%
    YoY Organic CvR: Up 32%
    YoY Organic Clicks: Up 189%
    YoY Organic Non Brand Clicks: 259%

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  28. How Can I Resolve Keyword
    Cannibalisation?
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    The Juicy Bit

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  30. Site Search & SERP Analysis
    Site search is great,
    but has pitfalls
    For ease, use a
    plugin such as SEO
    Minion to download
    the SERPs and
    review manually
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  31. There Are Some Great Tools, But Use With
    Care
    Ahrefs Keyword Explorer allows you to quickly see SERP flux for a given term
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  32. The Data Nearly Always Needs Refining
    Sistrix has a built in “Show Keyword Cannibalisation” feature, but you’re at
    the mercy of their database
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  33. Daily Keyword History Establishes SERP Flux
    Caused by PLPs with sparse content and PDPs with greater keyword density
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  34. Help Google & Rankings to Settle
    Keyword: Coat Racks (18,100 SV)
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  35. Establishing If a Term Needs Its Own LP
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  36. KWI Also Allows You To Cluster Based on the
    SERPs
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  37. And of course, Google Search Console
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  38. Keyword Cannibalisation
    Checklist
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  39. Summary
    Audit: Is keyword cannibalisation an issue for your site?
    Prune out any duplicate, similar, thin or low engagement URLs
    Cluster your keywords: merge and consolidate wherever possible
    based on search data, search intent and the SERPs
    Fill in your content gaps, not by creating URLS for every keyword but
    by optimising for clusters and entities*. Keep an eye on PDP vs PLP
    Don’t over optimise for money keywords, you don’t need 20 blogs on
    a topic
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