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Apr 16Liked by Kevin Indig

Great read as always! How do you feel about turning informational queries (IQs) into individual articles or just grouping relevant IQs into a single article to avoid cannibalization? Also, I feel grouping keywords into larger, over-arching articles makes your content less optimized for search engines and more geared towards the user. Thoughts?

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Thank you! It seems that long, overarching articles or guides are being replaced more by shorter, targeted ones for informational queries. Doesn't mean a mega article doesn’t work anymore, but you might be able to spare the effort :).

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Apr 16Liked by Kevin Indig

Interesting! I published articles targeting information queries on my sites that have been penalized recently by the latest algo. I guess the answer always depend on context! appreciate the reply.

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My pleasure! In what way were they penalized? And what were the articles about?

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Apr 20Liked by Kevin Indig

thanks for asking. Just content targeting informational intent keywords for content sites across different niches, which is what Google is de-ranking lately. To be fair, they're not the greatest of quality, but it has led me to think about targeting topics instead of chasing kewyords. Pure speculation on my part.

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Ah, I see. Well, the quality part matters so much more. It’s a steep incline!

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