Inbound Marketing Blog

In the Spring of 2018, the general manager of a local women's health clinic with three locations in the Treasure Valley (focused on obstetrics & pregnancy care, gynecology, and pre-menopausal medicine) reached out to our team at Tribute Media. He had been sitting in on meetings with the organization’s board of trustees where it was becoming more and more apparent in conversations that they weren’t staying competitive in their industry and needed to gain more traction finding new patients online. 

Keywords have traditionally been the focus of Google and other search engines since the mid-nineties. So after twenty-plus years of focusing search engine optimization efforts around a short list of keywords to work on and rank for, times have changed. With updated Google algorithms, the focus is no longer just on keywords, although those are still relevant. The greater focus is on topics that answer the questions that users are searching for via  desktop computers, mobile devices, and voice command devices. Let's delve into what this change means for you.

Client: "I want to rank for the keywords X, Y and Z."

There are two types of keyword cannibalism. The first is related to organic SEO (search engine optimization) methods, and the second has to do with PPC (pay-per-click) advertising. Let’s look at both types and how to avoid them.