Lesson 1 of 1615 minIntermediate

Architecture and categories

Category pages are your money pages

Most commercial demand is category-level, not product-level. Category pages deserve real copy, internal links and dedicated keyword mapping.

Why this lesson matters

This lesson belongs to Architecture and categories, the part of E-Commerce SEO where the goal is: make categories your ranking engine.

Read it once, then do it straight away on a real site inside RankTracker. Nothing here is theory for its own sake — every step produces something you can show a client.

Do it now

  1. 1Open RankTracker with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
  2. 2Track the keywords from this lesson.
  3. 3Map your top 20 commercial queries to categories in RankTracker and flag every query with no owning page.