First of all, I don't know if what I am referring is actually a long tail keyword problem?

Here is my issue though. I am working on a shop and I have two landing pages for categories including "widget box" and "widget box and doodad holder" which are boxes with a slot to hold the doodad. I wrote SEO-friendly content about a "widget box" and that was simple to do but the article about "widget box and doodad holder" is causing me a problem because Googlebot is seeing the term "widget box" in THAT article and having THAT article rank for "widget box" when it's better suited for "widget box and doodad holder".

The article is written to reference that exact term, such as, "This beautiful widget box and doodad holder will hold a 11x8.5 widget and doodad nice and neatly. The box is 13x19 inches in total size, it is made of 100% mahogany wood (not cheap plastic that some other sites give you)." What is wrong with that? I could see how Googlebot zones in on the word "widget" but what can I do to stop that, so it recognizes the trailing "... and doodad holder"?

Also, "widget box and doodad holder" is in the title, the description, keywords... what else is left? I've heard mixed thoughts about making keywords bold and making any references to widget box and doodad holder in the article BOLD. What are people's thoughts on that? I've read recently that is bad SEO.

I have checked the internal keywords coming to the "widget box and doodad holder" page and nothing is anchored just "widget", they are all clearly anchored "widget box and doodad holder" .

[edited by: not2easy at 5:33 pm (utc) on Apr 1, 2016]
[edit reason] Anonymizing specifics [/edit]