What is keyword cannibalization?

[ImpalaWardrobes]

What is keyword cannibalization?

[ritesh3592]

Keyword cannibalization is a term that describes focusing on optimizing a single keyword throughout multiple posts and pages on a website.

[sophiawils59]

Keyword cannibalization is a critical problem happening when a website is targeting same keyword, term or phrase on multiple pages of website.

[naksh]

Keyword cannibalization occurs when you have too many identical or similar keywords spread throughout the content on your website. As a result, a search engine like Google can't discern which content to rank higher. This means that sometimes it will give a higher ranking to the web page you don't mean to prioritize.

[greeindseo2019]

Keyword cannibalization means that you have various blog posts or articles on your site that can rank for the same search query in Google. If you optimize posts or articles for similar search queries, they’re eating away each other’s chances to rank. Usually, Google will only show 1 or 2 results from the same domain in the search results for a specific query. If you’re a high authority domain, you might get 3.

[RH-Calvin]

Keyword cannibalization is when a single website (e.g. ahrefs.com) unintentionally targets the same keyword across multiple posts or pages.