My website has two different pages A and B which has the same keyword, the most of my backlinks are linked to page A, but for that keyword google is ranking page B. Where is the problem? Page A has only 100 words content and Page B has 300 words content. So maybe it is because page B has more content then page A?
Google is ranking another page nor I want
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EvidenceSEO
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- Dec 8, 2014
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Pages more relevant and better optimized qualify for higher rankings.
I wrote a new article with 300 words, I hope that it will work.
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How this possible ? may be Google is fooling you or may be you are fooling us.
snaip
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This is called keyword cannibalism. Better write one quality article about your KW and merge the two pages. You can 301 redirect page A to page B since page B is already ranking.
jojogiuffra
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If you are doing A/B testing, the best practice is to don't index the testing site with robots. Google will index the best optimized page.
PS: In case that your website is a wordpress, there are a lot of useful plugins that help you with the indexation.
PS: In case that your website is a wordpress, there are a lot of useful plugins that help you with the indexation.
Page B content isn't for SEO purposes and keyword is a little bit different from Page A (I guess I badly formulated my problem in the first post). Lets say that Page A keyword is "Cars in New York" and Page B keywords is "Red cars in New York", so google was raking Page B for the keyword which is targeted in Page A. After I have changed my 100 words content in Page A to 300 words high quality article everything went OK. Google is already ranking Page A for my main keyword and my rankings went up from 24 to 17.
100 words isn't much. 300 words isn't much either. Between the 2 pages, page B has 3 times as many words. So, ignoring writing quality, keyword densities and other stuff, page B simply has more content.
I know if I had a choice between the 2 pages, I'd choose the page with 300 words, all other things being equal.
I know if I had a choice between the 2 pages, I'd choose the page with 300 words, all other things being equal.