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How many keywords can be targeted by backlinks?

by FlashDriveDT
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A lot of my pages are set up in a way that list many product models of certain brands. How many of these model names=keywords would I be allowed to target, via backlink campaigns? Is there a limit for Google? If so, what is it? Remember we're talking per page here, not per site.

I know that some experts say one page should only target 1-3 keywords, but the whole concept of my site is to give model overviews for brands on a single page and naturally, I would to like to rank for each of these models. But since one of my pages has disappeared from the SERPs after having ranked pretty high for a while I'm thinking that this could be an issue, if not THE issue. As it kind of coincided with diversifying my backlins for this page. Of course there could be other reasons at play here at well, but I think I have them eliminated by now such as duplicate content - it just may take google a while to recognize this.

Does anyone know? Thanks for your insight and suggestions.
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  • Profile picture of the author Groovy99
    Originally Posted by FlashDriveDT View Post

    A lot of my pages are set up in a way that list many product models of certain brands. How many of these model names=keywords would I be allowed to target, via backlink campaigns? Is there a limit for Google? If so, what is it? Remember we're talking per page here, not per site.

    I know that some experts say one page should only target 1-3 keywords, but the whole concept of my site is to give model overviews for brands on a single page and naturally, I would to like to rank for each of these models. But since one of my pages has disappeared from the SERPs after having ranked pretty high for a while I'm thinking that this could be an issue, if not THE issue. As it kind of coincided with diversifying my backlins for this page. Of course there could be other reasons at play here at well, but I think I have them eliminated by now such as duplicate content - it just may take google a while to recognize this.

    Does anyone know? Thanks for your insight and suggestions.
    I would think you would want your brands in this case to be the keywords you are targeting. 'superfabulouscompany blue widget' rather than superfabulouscompany blue widget 45etr'. Might help you to turn those individual listings into links to specific product review pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketstriker
    I think you can only target one keyword phrase per page since the core of your on page optimization is rooted in your title tag, and after one phrase you don't have much room to stuff anymore.
    That doesn't mean you only build content around one phrase.
    I would approach content with targetconcepts that are concisely written for one idea. After you've done that, you can insert your primary keyword in a coherent manner in the title element
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  • Profile picture of the author murthykmd
    Yes, Traffic-Bug said this all truth. Actually no limit for targeting keywords via backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author FlashDriveDT
    Just to update - the reason for disappearing out of the SERPS was purely duplicate content. The keyword diversity in the title tag and in my backlink campaign seems to be no problem. For all of my pages actually. I would still recommend to limit the title tag to 3 or 4 keywords though, as Traffic Bug already hinted at.
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  • Profile picture of the author webeserve
    Targeting a lot of keyword will makes google to classify the page as irrelevant and it will get a low ranking on search engines
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexander CPA
    You should only really target a couple of keywords per page, it's really hard to optimize your pages on-site SEO if you have a number of keywords, can you direct the traffic from the landing page, to a more detailed product page? Then rank for that product page for the keyword, instead of the landing page? That would mean you'd be able to easily rank for long-tail product keywords on 100's of pages.
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