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Pages or categorys?

by aaronjunited
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I need help with pages and category's for my site.

It's a review site and I will be reviewing a good number of products in a niche which will be updated for the foreseeable future.

Does using category's for each type of product or brand of product affect search engine ranking, compared to using a page for each product brand or type.

Pages I understand should only be used for about, privacy policy, contact and so on.

I hope this makes sense.
Thanks.
#categorys #pages
  • Profile picture of the author aaronjunited
    can a mod delete this post and the other in this forum.

    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanSupplee
    Im going to guess your using wordpress. If your doing reviews and thats it on your blog then there really is no reason for categories. Unless your going to blog more then just reviews then I would recommend creating categories. But for now I would say create one called reviews and then make sure you SEO the page (wordpress title for the url) Example blogname.com/reviews/productname-review
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  • Profile picture of the author aaronjunited
    I will be adding products frequently as i do reviews on them, so I'm thinking category's will be essential.
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    • Profile picture of the author rhinocl
      A page menu will only return pages. A category menu will (if the theme is set up right) return a mini-blog listing just the posts in that category or just excerpts of them.Of course you can make a custom combo menu with both but that can be a pain to maintain with larger sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author aaronjunited
    Yea I don't mind the work needing done, just want to know if it will help with ranking and so on.
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  • Profile picture of the author aaronjunited
    can you explain why you would?
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  • Profile picture of the author John J Brown
    yes, in a wordpress blog you can have about me, contact, privacy policy, disclaimer etc page and a landing/home page,
    then everything else will be Posts and will go in the Category section on the right side in the Widgets area
    check this site Outdoor Electric Grill
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  • Profile picture of the author tylerd4
    I would like to have 'category' section if I were you, because it help the readers to find the information they need more quickly
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