Comments on: Beware the Keyword Cannibals

By: Catalog Printing

Catalog Printing — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:05:56 +0000

This is indeed something we have to watch out for when making supporting pages, even on different domains like you noted. It seems to me like maybe you are getting the -30 penalty, because your ranking for that page fell by 30 and won’t go above that point. Meanwhile, the supporting pages were probably already ranking on the 2nd and 3rd pages but you just weren’t paying attention to them because you were just keeping track of the main page.

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:48:18 +0000

This happened to me once when I was just starting. I forgot the site’s name but when I checked the keyword where I rank high, they outranked me considering that I have the entired content on my site so what I did is to delete all the entries I have on that site since they were getting a share of my traffic.

By: 200 Posts and Stuff for the Readers

200 Posts and Stuff for the Readers — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:50:22 +0000

[...] economy basically sucks and summer search updates axed my rank in search before throwing me to the keyword cannibals. To offset that effect, I’ve started buying some advertisements for high converting [...]