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I doing SEO for a large site (20+ pages). What are the best practices in regards to the sub-pages of the site? Should I put keywords for sub-pages, and if yes how similar can they be to my home page keywords? What about description and page title, how long should those be and how similar to the home page? Is there anything else that can be done for SEO optimization?

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Quick, practical primer for : treat each subpage like its own landing page with a single user intent. Several replies here point the right way — on theming, on URLs and internal links, and on keyword coverage — but the next step is a repeatable page-level workflow that avoids duplication and keeps the site coherent.

  1. Decide the page intent and pick one primary query (plus a few close variants). If a subpage’s intent is different from the homepage, give it a distinct primary focus so pages don’t compete.
  2. Create a unique, benefit-driven title and meta description for every page; avoid reusing the same meta for multiple pages.
  3. Align H1, subheads and body with the page’s intent. Add specifics that make the page unique: specs, comparisons, FAQs, examples or snippets that answer real user questions.
  4. Use structured data where it helps (product, service, breadcrumb). It clarifies purpose to search engines and can improve SERP presentation.
  5. Keep URLs short and hierarchical. Use rel=canonical for duplicates and prevent indexation of utility pages (login, admin, thin policy pages).
  6. Internal linking should be topical and natural. Link from broader category pages to deeper pages you want to rank; vary anchor text and avoid over-optimized exact-match anchors.
  7. Technical basics: XML sitemap, robots control, mobile-friendly layout, and fast load times. Monitor indexing and queries with Search Console or equivalent to detect cannibalization.

Promotion should favor relevant, quality links over low-value bookmarking or mass submissions. One caution about ’s idea: packing the homepage meta with every subpage keyword can dilute relevance — make the homepage broad and let subpages own the long-tail, measurable targets. Measure, iterate, and prioritize usefulness for users over trying to “game” rankings.

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Member Avatar for ArvindSharma

seo is not just putting meta data on the data..
It is just basics.

First as you ask how to work on sub pages

if they are commercial pages like services or product related page , then optimize them according to the content and theme of that page..

for ex.
a page
then target it with the web design related keyword..

if they are normal pages like team- information, privacy policy or disclaimer

then just make this page seo friendly.

Member Avatar for bestitservices

One more thing , if you start with new website, first step to rewrite URL into google friendly. then start work on internal linking, because it will play important role to grow keywords with stable ranking and page rank and third and important , anchor text use to link pages.
I think these are basic to start seo for a site.

Member Avatar for mokmok69

I think link building and social bookmarkings is one of the best tactics is optimizing site.

Member Avatar for bobchrist

I think you should use effective keywords in your anchor text to optimize your sub pages, the anchor text will work as a short descriptor for your web pages.

Member Avatar for mrandrei

Each of the subpages needs to have unique content and tags. Bookmark them to popularize and promote the inner pages.

Member Avatar for ArvindSharma

Each of the subpages needs to have unique content and tags. Bookmark them to popularize and promote the inner pages.

i am not able to get you..

will you explain please...

Are you talking about the SBM(Social Book marking)

Member Avatar for dailyearner

search in google
i think you can get many answers

Member Avatar for Hafsoh

Make the subpages rank for whatever content those pages contain, keywords you use for subpages shouldn't be different, normal SEO principles is applicable to any webpage, just make sure you optimise the page for that keyword.

Member Avatar for MktgRob

This thread is similar to one from a few years ago that just got revived. As I said on that one, I was in a similar situation and what I did was that since each of the subpages dealt with a different product I created a list of keywords to use as both meta tags and within the content of the page. I then created a master keyword list by combining all of the keywords from the subpages and used the master keyword list as the meta tags for the main page. What this did was that if someone searched on a particular keyword the site would place two pages high in the rankings, the home page and the specific subpage. Worked really well on the site I was working on.

Member Avatar for phoenix06007

you can do social bookmarking or microblogging for that.

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