Hi all,
I'm new to exploring this arena, and I hope these questions don't come across as stupid -- but I've done a lot of research in beginner and newbie threads and this is one thing I've been unable to form a grasp on.
Say for a site I want to rank for several 3 or 4 word keywords with a common root. For example (and these are obviously not my real keywords), I may want to rank for all of the following:
dorm room
dorm room loft
dorm room cooking
dorm room furniture
dorm room decor
dorm room lighting
etc. etc.
I plan on using Wordpress, and have no problem creating content on my own. I understand the on-site SEO optimization of each individual post for -- I can optimize a post for "dorm room decor," for example, just fine. My questions are as follows:
1) Does it matter how many blog posts I display on the main page of my site for SEO? If I'm only showing the 5 most recent, for example, will the 6th oldest and older stop contributing to my main page keyword ranking? Or will categories / tags and the fact they've already been crawled on the homepage keep them in the game 100%?
2) How would you suggest I approach linkbuilding for this type of keyword cluster? I think I want the majority of my organic traffic to hit my homepage, as a surfer's interest in one keyword is probably highly correlated with potential interest in the other longtails, even if it's not what they were looking for originally. Is it as simple as rotating the anchor text between all the longtails, with the homepage as a target? Or is there something more complicated I should be thinking about, like building links aimed at category or tag pages within my blog structure for each sub-niche?
Thanks in advance
I'm new to exploring this arena, and I hope these questions don't come across as stupid -- but I've done a lot of research in beginner and newbie threads and this is one thing I've been unable to form a grasp on.
Say for a site I want to rank for several 3 or 4 word keywords with a common root. For example (and these are obviously not my real keywords), I may want to rank for all of the following:
dorm room
dorm room loft
dorm room cooking
dorm room furniture
dorm room decor
dorm room lighting
etc. etc.
I plan on using Wordpress, and have no problem creating content on my own. I understand the on-site SEO optimization of each individual post for -- I can optimize a post for "dorm room decor," for example, just fine. My questions are as follows:
1) Does it matter how many blog posts I display on the main page of my site for SEO? If I'm only showing the 5 most recent, for example, will the 6th oldest and older stop contributing to my main page keyword ranking? Or will categories / tags and the fact they've already been crawled on the homepage keep them in the game 100%?
2) How would you suggest I approach linkbuilding for this type of keyword cluster? I think I want the majority of my organic traffic to hit my homepage, as a surfer's interest in one keyword is probably highly correlated with potential interest in the other longtails, even if it's not what they were looking for originally. Is it as simple as rotating the anchor text between all the longtails, with the homepage as a target? Or is there something more complicated I should be thinking about, like building links aimed at category or tag pages within my blog structure for each sub-niche?
Thanks in advance