How I Ranked #1 For Project Management Software
Outcome, in plain numbers - From 100k to nearly 1.3m monthly organic visits. - Ranking for โProject Management Softwareโ and thousands of adjacent high-value terms. - Some individual pages generate $10k per day. That is page-level revenue, not just site-wide. - Portfolio lift followed as we replicated the wins. While many publishers, affiliates, and software companies are experiencing multi-year traffic declines, this site broke out and accelerated. The win was not volume-related. It was all about focus. We consolidated strength, concentrated authority, and protected what worked. Hereโs how we pulled this off 1) Eliminate keyword cannibalization What I saw Multiple pages targeting the same or very similar terms were splitting signals and confusing Google. What we changed Consolidated overlapping assets into fewer, stronger pages using custom cannibalization analysis tools. Preserved the best content, redirected the rest. On a high-authority domain, this produced ranking lifts almost immediately. Why it works One clear intent per query lets link equity, user signals, and historical performance compound on a single URL. 2) Build a champion page for the head term What I saw Several similar pages were going after long-tail variations, while the category head term lost rankings. It ranked #8 at its lowest point. What we changed Focused our efforts on a single flagship โchampionโ page to win the biggest keyword on the site: Project Management Software. Redirected weaker or underperforming variants into the champion. Fed it links, topical coverage, and historical data. Why it works Google increasingly rewards comprehensive, authoritative resources that satisfy broad intent. Champion pages aggregate both authority and coverage across long-tail phrasing. 3) Replace JavaScript navigation with clean HTML What I saw A JavaScript-driven menu limited crawler visibility and throttled PageRank flow. What we changed Rebuilt navigation in plain HTML. The result was a visible unlock in crawling, indexing, and internal authority distribution.