Lesson 2 of 1616 minIntermediate

Architecture and categories

Mapping demand to a category tree

Build the taxonomy from how people search, not from how your ERP groups products.

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.