How to I rank for 5 Different Categories??

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Hi there

I have 5 different categories on my site, how do i go about ranking for each of these??

Do I rank for the articles?? or do I rank for the categories?? bit confused how to go about doing this??

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You can rank everything, use a unique canonical tag, page title, & meta description tag on all your pages. It doesn't matter If it's a page/post/category/tag, they all will rank on their own.
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  • When you say categories, do you mean different products?

    If they are on different pages I would try something like have your domain name, and then the keyword as the page title.
    This will give you something like mydomain.com/categorykeyword

    You can do this for each of your categories. Then treat each page as its own 'site' and do the on-page SEO for it, and then build backlinks to that page with they keywords in the anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author r0ncha
    if categories are similiar then promote whole site
    if they are very different (f.e. cars, health, games...) then promote them separately
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  • Profile picture of the author Captain_Morgan
    for example

    dinosaur sheets
    dinosaur bedding
    dinosaur linen
    dinosaur pillow

    but these will all be under 1 main url called dinosaur accessories

    so how do i go about it??
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    • Profile picture of the author scott g
      Originally Posted by Captain_Morgan View Post

      for example

      dinosaur sheets
      dinosaur bedding
      dinosaur linen
      dinosaur pillow

      but these will all be under 1 main url called dinosaur accessories

      so how do i go about it??

      So....

      mydomain.com/dinosaur-sheets/
      mydomain.com/dinosaur-bedding/
      mydomain.com/dinosaur-linen/
      mydomain.com/dinosaur-pillow/

      (this is wordpress type subdirectories)

      Make sure your On-site SEO is spot-on for each page (meta, title, headers, internal linking, alt img, keyword density, etc).

      Do the standard Off-site SEO (backlinking) for each page using keyword anchor text in your backlinks.

      Voila.

      CHEERS!


      P.s. You could also just rank your main page for multiple keywords... That's what I do.
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      scott g
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  • Profile picture of the author pauley13
    Depending on various factors, you can generally say that for a site to rank on different keywords it should be "optimized" for those keywords. More ofthen than not, this means you need to have different pages dedicated to separate keywords. Here's an excellent system which will show you exactly how that's done: pauley13: I will help you dominate Google on any keyword you like for $5 at Fiverr.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Mo Annuar
    Get much content related to any of those, than get links having those as anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author pilaruk
    Optimize each of those pages for the keywords that you are trying to target.
    Do they not fall all under a general category?
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  • Profile picture of the author webbill
    You need to define your seo strategy your linking and content will be distributive according to the category and category type.
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  • Profile picture of the author Captain_Morgan
    Scott G

    When you say you just rank multiple keywords from your main page, but then obviously your main category is your keyword yes??

    then do all the posts just go in there meaning for example u got 5 keywords do you just post those articles in the same category??

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author scott g
      Originally Posted by Captain_Morgan View Post

      Scott G

      When you say you just rank multiple keywords from your main page, but then obviously your main category is your keyword yes??

      then do all the posts just go in there meaning for example u got 5 keywords do you just post those articles in the same category??

      Thanks

      I'm a little confused by your question.

      You could make a site called dinosaurstuff.info or whatever and rank that domain for keywords like dinosaur sheets, dinosaur bedding, dinosaur linen, dinosaur pillow, etc. Obviously, it will take some work and more On- and Off-Site optimization to rank for multiple keywords.

      I prefer working with HTML. However, if I'm using a blog platform like wordpress I will create pages instead of posts so I don't mess with categories and tags. That's just my preference.

      I just focus on Meta tags, titles, headers, keyword density, internal linking, bold terms, alt img, link titles, etc. Off-site optimization is basically getting some good keyword anchored backlinks.

      CHEERS!
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