My site has pages competing against themselves in SERPS - what now?
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Ok, I've had this site for a few years and decided to pursue SEO to get traffic. A few months ago I started optimizing the site and have been regularly doing some optimization to increase my search engine rankings. Instead of optimizing the site for both keywords "dell laptops" and "dell computers" at the same time (keep in mind I'm still a beginner at this) I decided to optimize the main page for "dell laptops" initially and then after I got the hang of SEO, I would optimize another page (on the same domain) for "dell computers".
Here's what happened. After a 4 or so months of SEO my rankings increased from 600+ to position 16 for "dell laptops", which is good. But for some reason the page targeted towards "dell laptops" is also ranking at position 30 for "dell computers".
So what do I do now? Do I...
1) Ignore the ranking for "dell computers" and continue optimizing the main page for "dell laptops", then build a new page specifically for "dell computers" and start optimizing for that page as well?
2) Start optimizing the main page for both "dell laptops" and "dell computers" and hope that I can rank the same page in the top 1-3 positions for 2 terms?
If I could get the main page to rank in the top 3 for both keywords, then I would much rather do that...but the thing is I don't see that really happening. I did look at the search results for both keywords and see 2-3 pages in the top 10 promoting the other keyword, but none of those pages are in the top 3. What would you recommend doing?
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