Website ranking twice for same keyword issues

[redrosephotos]

Evening,

I currently have two of my pages showing up for the same keyword and am wondering what, if any, impact this might be having on my site?

In essence I have the main page that I want to rank well for the keyword but when I've checked the ranking I note my homepage is also ranking highly as well. Obviously I don't have a major issue with this because the more pages ranking the better would be my logic. However, having read about abit I'm a bit confused. Some say leave it as it is and some say that it would be better to edit the homepage so it doesn't rank for that keyword.

Does anyone have any thoughts or opinion as to what action is best?

1. Is having two pages ranking for the same keyword detrimental to the page I want to rank for.

2. Should is edit the homepage so it doesn't reference the keyword?

 

[jeza87]

If anything having two pages that rank for the same keyword will increase the CTRs to you site.

However if you did want to only have one of your main pages ranking for that keywords then you would have to de-optimise one of your pages by simply targeting a different keyword. Using Google Keyword Tool would help you there. Ideally you would want your homepage to be targeting the higher volume keyword and perhaps de-optimise your other page to target a lower volume keyword.

 

[fisicx]

Using Google Keyword Tool would help you there.

Why do people still bang on about using this tool. It's an adwords tool. It has some use as trend reporter but of almost zero value to help with optimisation

 

[redrosephotos]

I wish I could find the article I read a few weeks ago that said it would be better to deoptimise one of the pages so you're just ranking with one page. I know I didn't dream it.

 

[yottacom]

Evening,

I currently have two of my pages showing up for the same keyword and am wondering what, if any, impact this might be having on my site?

In essence I have the main page that I want to rank well for the keyword but when I've checked the ranking I note my homepage is also ranking highly as well. Obviously I don't have a major issue with this because the more pages ranking the better would be my logic. However, having read about abit I'm a bit confused. Some say leave it as it is and some say that it would be better to edit the homepage so it doesn't rank for that keyword.

Does anyone have any thoughts or opinion as to what action is best?

1. Is having two pages ranking for the same keyword detrimental to the page I want to rank for.

2. Should is edit the homepage so it doesn't reference the keyword?

It depends on the keyword and the landing page.

According to several tests, only a few % of users goes beyond the first 10 results into the second page (also known as the wasteland), so occupying two precious slots in a query, represent, at least in theory a big advantage.

Of course if the people land on a page which is not configured for that audience, you risk losing traffic and/or conversion, in this case the "intruder" is the home page.

The people usually are clever enough to figure the right option: if they want the specific content and can found it within 6-10 seconds in your home page, they are gonna visit the page and keep navigating, otherwise you risk a "bounce" visit (returning to google results).

Unfortunately there's no more an easy way to check the bounce-rate per keyword in analytics since the introduction of "not provided" searches.

 

[MASSEY]

My guess is that your home page and your photo restoration page are ranking?

You are not internally linking from your homepage, so link the words photo restoration to the photo restoration main page and see what happens.

 

[leadprop]

It's not uncommon to have two pages rank for the same keyword and it's not a bad thing.

 

[DanielD]

I am also experiencing this case. My logic says: as long as it works, don't fix it (even if I tested the opposite). Two is always better than one, and I don't think it has any effect on the page.

In my case, two pages (A and B) ranked first page on the query looking for A, however B was actually targeting another query and it ranked top 5 for it as well. Still, I decided to edit B and make it more focused on the keyword it was only supposed to rank for. In a weeks time B was gone from the search result where it appeared next to A, but remained on the same position for its focus query.

So, I guess you should leave it as it is and not worry.

 

[redrosephotos]

My guess is that your home page and your photo restoration page are ranking?

You are not internally linking from your homepage, so link the words photo restoration to the photo restoration main page and see what happens.

Something I'd totally missed and have rectified today. A trick missed potentially because the homepage does have good page rank that could benefit the preferred landing page.

 

[StevePoster]

I currently have two of my pages showing up for the same keyword and am wondering what, if any, impact this might be having on my site?
Some say leave it as it is and some say that it would be better to edit the homepage so it doesn't rank for that keyword.
Should is edit the homepage so it doesn't reference the keyword?

I think the reason why your two site pages ranking up for the same keyword is Google consider those pages helpful for that searches that's why it shows in the search results.
But if you want to expand your website's influence in the search engine every content page in your website should target different keyword phrases.

 

[jackxen89]

Evening,

I currently have two of my pages showing up for the same keyword and am wondering what, if any, impact this might be having on my site?

In essence I have the main page that I want to rank well for the keyword but when I've checked the ranking I note my homepage is also ranking highly as well. Obviously I don't have a major issue with this because the more pages ranking the better would be my logic. However, having read about abit I'm a bit confused. Some say leave it as it is and some say that it would be better to edit the homepage so it doesn't rank for that keyword.

Does anyone have any thoughts or opinion as to what action is best?

1. Is having two pages ranking for the same keyword detrimental to the page I want to rank for.

2. Should is edit the homepage so it doesn't reference the keyword?

 

[jackxen89]

I think it's happening because the keyword is included in both the pages of yours. You should optimize your home page ones again and should include the high competitive keywords of your site...

 

[nada_book14]

I think you have post or create back-link same for both the pages of websites. If you have used same keyword for both the web page on On-Page and Off-Page SEO then this may the reason of That problem. You can solve this by editing the meta keyword of your webs page. ele remove the keyword which have same page.