Ranking for Wrong Keyword Solution

spyguy said:

Holo BHW,
I have a website in which i have more than 3000 pages,problem is the website is ranking fine but its ranking is as follows:

Ranking for : wordno1 wordno2 wordno3
I need it to rank for : wordno1 wordno2

Some disclosures: I have my title in format as: wordno1 wordno2 wordno3 wordno4 wordno5
Since my title has exact sequence of first 3 words its ranking for that.I need to rank all my posts in format :wordno1 wordno2

Since i have good ranks for website and many pages i could not afford to change all titles.

Any good way to do what i intent to DO.

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Panther28 said:

When you lookup a site like ahrefs or semrush, do you actually rank for wordno1 wordno2 in anyway?

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Maithri siril said:

So you want to maintain rank only 2 keywords ? Guess i don't get the question. Anyway what kind of seo method do you follow ?
I would target tons of keywords + gray or black hat as long as you have lot of pages.

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MisterF said:

Are you meaning you're ranking for long tails and not just the exact keywords you want to rank for ?

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spyguy said:

exactly

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spyguy said:

I do see my keyword: wordno1 wordno2 ,but problem is it ranks very poorly like around 30-50th position mainly and for word1 word2 word3 i get ranks around 3-6th position

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Panther28 said:

What would help is if you build links with either exact match anchors to 1, 2, as well as contextual links to those terms.

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MisterF said:

It's nothing to worry about.

You could want to rank for; lawyer in New York
But you'll also possibly end up ranking for; best lawyer in New York, who is the best lawyer in New York, DUI lawyer in New York, Divorce lawyer in New York

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spyguy said:

I do see my keyword: wordno1 wordno2 ,but problem is it ranks very poorly like around 30-50th position mainly and for word1 word2 word3 i get ranks around 3-6th position

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spyguy said:

thanks.but its not feasible to build those exact anchors for each and every page.WHat can help in this case

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Panther28 said:

Build to the page that is ranking for the keyword you want, you said it was around 30-50, what page is showing up in semrush/ahrefs when you look? Is it the homepage?
If so, then concentrate on that, and also on a few of your main traffic pages, as long as they are relevant.

How did you end up with 3k articles anyway? Are they spun?

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don chino said:

If content and on-page is ready for your preferred keywords, I'd keep building good quality links and diversify anchor texts. These days Google wants you to optimize more for the topic (with a group of kw-s) rather than any specific single word / phrase, you can easily over-optimize it and do more harm than good.

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