<b>Killed a page that was secretly killing 6 others</b>

<b>Killed a page that was secretly killing 6 others</b>
Had a cluster stuck at position 14. Couldn't move it no matter what I added.
Ran a crawl, filtered for pages with zero internal links pointing in. Found a thin 400-word post stealing the keyword.
301'd it into the pillar. Pulled the anchor text from the old one.
Cluster jumped to page 1 in 9 days. Nothing else changed.
Sometimes the win isn't a new post. It's deleting the one cannibalizing you.
Go audit your orphans. Report back.