If the whole domain www.example.com and www.example.com/blog is treated as the same url, does SEO those inner pages matter or should one just try and SEO the homepage? Can www.example.com get optimized for the keyword "example blogs" while the innerpage www.example.com/blog gets keyword optimized for "example blogs" as well? I tried to do a search on this...i I know SEO is important and I have a couple keywords I want to win so knowing if inner pages are treated separetly would be huge. This way I can save some main keywords for the homepage and focus on the less traffic ones for the inner pages? Please help, thx
You can make each page for seperate keywords. The top level domain usualy gets highest rank. Most sites add the main url and most directories only allow it. Digital point is good example each post is listed for different terms that topic describes.
if you can SEO inner pages as a completely seperate domain...then why don't some websites win for 100 keywords? I'm sure their are sites that would dominate too many keywords if this was true. Can anyone confirm you can SEO an inner page like it was a completely different url?
you do seo on inner pages just as you would on your home page......if your home page ranks well, it is relatively easier to get an inner page ranked for a related keyword. The reason you see most homepages ranked is because most links are pointed at homepages.
I understand that you SEO inner pages the same as your homepage...backlinks, etc. That's not the issue. Will your inner pages be treated as seperate when factoring in keywords. Example, someone types in "keyboards" in google and gets my inner page since my homepage has little to no seo for keyboards but my inner page is optimized for it. Is it possible for each inner page you have within a site to win a keyword? I know SEO, have some keywords on page one of google. I need to know if inner pages can win the keyword battle or if it's a lost cause....and directories not accepting isn't a huge deal since you can buy deeplinks.
yes inner pages can win the battle....I'm trying to tell you that it will be easier for your inner pages to win the battle if it is somehow related to the topic on the rest of your site.
Yes the pages will be treated as a different URL entirely. Wikipedia ranks first on many datacenters for 'search engine optimization' with a page that isn't their home page. They have number one rankings for thousands of different keywords.
how u link your internal pages is impt .. and the selection of keywords for linking ... words like homepage are useless : ))
Taking a blog as for example would be much more difficult just for the fact that you have one new page every day (if you write daily). While for business sites is much easier, and better to SEO inner pages and create some pages as a landing page, where visitors will read about the service, see whats included in the service and have by-their-hand the signup button and proceed to checkout, instead of finding you in the main page, than surfing around to read more or less about everything. So YES, SEO for inner pages especially for business websites (but no only) is a way to go. If you read here on this forum or on any other forum you will see how many actually suggest (and some speak from first experience) to have your visitors landing in inner pages rather than in home page. Stay around on digital point and you will learn more on this topic, just search through the threads and previous posts. DP is like a gold mine, you have to dig deep to find your treasure.
yes the community here is seriously awesome/knowledgeable/helpful; it's great to just need that last little piece of information to make some important decisions. I'm continuing my growth on learning SEO and will choose what keywords to win for my inner pages now ...now how many keywords is another issue ;p
Your inner pages are not targeting the same keywords as the home page. They should be targeting other phrases or related phrases. Don't make them compete with each other. The bulk of you back links will point to your home page, of course. So the home page should target your main keywords. The inner pages then benefit from the home page via the link weight passed to them from the home page. They are targeting other terms, often less competitive variants of your main keywords and long tail phrases. In some cases, when done right, you can optimize in such a way so as to get a double listing in Google results. Home page + and inner page. It does not always work but when it does its nice. Instead of taking up 10% of the search results page you get 20%. Effectively doubling your chances of a click.