Trying to rank for a specific page, other is ranking instead

benash · Dec 18, 2015

Hi,

I dont know what im doing bad (or im not and its usually happaned)
I am trying to rank specific page in my site for specific keyword for example "1200 calories diet"
and another page in my site is take the place (in the first page) for that keyword that target the keyword "800 calories diet" (i target this keyword for this page before)

why is this happend? why another page with other target keyword shows instead?

xjapan · Dec 18, 2015

put the keyword in the url, h1, h2, first and end paragraphs

teranu · Dec 18, 2015

How do you know which one is ranking above other? Did u used a rank checker, or just checked it yourself?
If really the pages are ranking as your say, the problem is that your desired page have less authority than the other one. You need to take a look at your internal linking structure (anchors, tags, categories) keyword density, headings and any other on-page seo factors.

Or if your site is connected to WMT (it should), check for links to your site, maybe (very low chances) someone linked to one of your pages from a slightly different topic. In your case (this is an extreme example) someone linked with "1200 calories diet" anchor to your 800 die calories page. This is extremely unlikely, but you can make an idea.

Or maybe the SERPs are not well established yet, and they will get to normal soon.

benash · Jan 2, 2016

teranu said:
How do you know which one is ranking above other? Did u used a rank checker, or just checked it yourself?
If really the pages are ranking as your say, the problem is that your desired page have less authority than the other one. You need to take a look at your internal linking structure (anchors, tags, categories) keyword density, headings and any other on-page seo factors.

Or if your site is connected to WMT (it should), check for links to your site, maybe (very low chances) someone linked to one of your pages from a slightly different topic. In your case (this is an extreme example) someone linked with "1200 calories diet" anchor to your 800 die calories page. This is extremely unlikely, but you can make an idea.

Or maybe the SERPs are not well established yet, and they will get to normal soon.

thanks for your comment.. i just check it by myself. after 2-3 days it was changed to the right page.

thank you

SEO Power · Jan 2, 2016

benash said:
thanks for your comment.. i just check it by myself. after 2-3 days it was changed to the right page.

thank you

Glad it fixed itself. I presume both pages are optimised for similar keywords. That's probably what confused Google.

benash · Jan 2, 2016

SEO Power said:
Glad it fixed itself. I presume both pages are optimised for similar keywords. That's probably what confused Google.

yes i got few pages that the keywords are very similar.. thank you friend

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