Keyword Cannibalization: What It Is and How to Fix It Fast
The $30K Traffic Loss That Opened My Eyes I'll never forget the client call that changed how I approach SEO forever Hire SEO Specialist Sarah, a SaaS company founder, was panicking. Her website traffic had dropped 35% in just two months, and she couldn't figure out why. Her content team had been publishing consistently, they'd built quality backlinks, and their technical SEO was solid. The problem seemed impossible to solve—until I discovered the hidden culprit. After diving deep into her Google Search Console data, I found something shocking: Her website had 47 pages competing for the same 12 keywords . Her content team, trying to be thorough, had created multiple articles targeting variations of the same search terms. Instead of dominating the search results, her pages were cannibalizing each other's rankings . Google couldn't figure out which page to show, so it showed none of them consistently. The solution was surprisingly simple: We consolidated sim...