Technically, this post could be considered duplicate content. The information above has been taken from Yoast’s website and curated on my blog. Am I fearful of a penalty? Not in the slightest. Content curation exists in many different mediums. People love to give their feedback on certain topics or points brought up by others. Myself included of course.
Keyword cannibalization means that you have various blog posts or articles on your site that can rank for the same search query in Google. If you optimize posts or articles for similar search queries, they’re eating away each other’s chances to rank. Here, I’ll explain why keyword cannibalism is bad for your SEO, how you can recognize keyword cannibalization and how to solve it.Learn how to write awesome and SEO friendly articles in our SEO Copywriting training »
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What is keyword cannibalization? If you optimize your articles for similar terms, you might suffer from keyword cannibalization: you’ll be devouring your own chances to rank in Google. Google will only show 1 or 2 results from the same domain in the search results for any specific query. If you’re a high authority domain, you might get away with 3.
Why is keyword cannibalism bad for SEO? If you cannibalize your own keywords, you’re competing with yourself for ranking in Google. Let’s say you have two po..
Why you should quit blogging
Yep. I fell for the title. I thought the author’s post was going to be a holier-than-thou outlook on blogging. I’ve seen plenty of other articles with similar scolding titles. Reasons why you SHOULDN’T build an Amazon affiliate website comes to mind. It’s as if they’re saying, you can’t do this so don’t even try. Of course, you’ll only be successful if you can stick through the rough times. You also have to accept failure but not give up if that makes sense.
When I first started blogging, I always wanted to provide quality articles. I actually use Yoast to optimize the SEO and readability of my posts. It is important that I get the green indicators for both. In the past, I really didn’t give readability much of a thought. But as I started to think about it, I realized how important it was to keep my audience engaged. That meant taking all of Yoast’s advice into consideration.
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