I did my research and came up with a list of keyphrases that are typically searched for using Google. From what I read on this forum, it's a good idea to optimize individual pages for each keyphrase. Now, my question is, it's hard NOT to duplicate content if you have keyphrases that are very similar. For example, if you have "New York Limousine Service" vs "NYC Limousine Service" vs "NY Limousine Service" vs "New York City Limousine Service". How would you guys suggest I go about implementing this? Thanks in advance.
Every individual page unique keyword important for google crawling. You are suggesting 2 keywords are good, its not consider duplicate meta title tag. The first keyword related to that page is important. Thanks Auto Transport
What I meant to say was, it's hard to write several different pages worth of content using those keyphrases due to their similarities. Simply substituting those different keyphrases into the same content would be considered duplicate content, right? I just find it difficult to type different pages about the same thing using a slightly modified keyphrase.
What I'd do is make one page with the following title: New York City Limousine Service | NYC Limousines That's just my 2 cents anyway
This is the real trick to it. We would all love to be able to just switch out the keywords we're going for in an already content-rich article but, duplicate content is a real issue with Google. If you get detected then all your work is just nullified. If you can't take the time to hand write them yourself, you really might want to consider hiring someone to clean up articles for you. :
Those are all pretty much the same keyword and you'll be better off optimizing one single page for them all! It is virtually impossible to create GOOD content for different pages targeting the same keyword. Try: Limousine Service | New York City NY - and include all the variations in the content. You have all your keywords there, the only one missing in your example is NYC, I didn't check which of the 4 you provided has the highest search volume but that would be a good way of picking which one to drop or you could try to find a non spammy way of including all 4 in the title.
Yeah I'm trying to group certain things but it's like there is so many variations lol. NY Limousine Service New York Limousine Service New York City Limousine Service NYC Limousine Service and then there is NY Limo Service . . . etc I guess I'll just try to pick different topics to write about. Thank God that the search term New York Limousine can be included with New York Limousine Service. Otherwise I would be in a really crappy position.
Don't get too excited on the variations, pick 3 to 4 variations at most of the same keyword and stick to those. If the keyword has the same meaning but different words read about LSI, google is getting really good at it. All the search engines have evolved a lot and they will understand that your site is about New York City Limousines. Automatically if you include the other keywords in your content and diversify your incoming links with all the variation you will be fine without having to create spammy landing pages.
This is not a situation where you want separate pages. Those phrases are all practically the same phrase. When you have several phrases like this that are almost identical, it's best to target multiple phrases on one page. I would probably go with 3 phrases max but still trying to work in all 4 NY related phrases ("New York", "New York City", "NY", and "NYC") with something like: You can rest assured that Google knows through lexical semantic analysis and probably even some big list of common abbreviations/synonyms that "New York" and"NY" are semantically equivalent and that "New York City" and "NYC" are semantically equivalent... and that all 4 are closely related. I would try to include them all so that there is an exact match that Google can bold in the <title> regardless of how it is searched. The order of the 3 phrases would depend on which phrase I want to rank for the most (I'd put it first in the <title>), which page I want to rank for 2nd (I'd put it 2nd in the <title>), and which is least important for me to rank for (I'd put it 3rd in the <title>).