Wisam, I don’t understand the use of category for a post URL. Post URL should be free from the category or sub-category name if you are asking me for the optimized URL option. Wisam, I would suggest you share an email to me at anil@bloggerspassion.com with complete details. That way I can help you in a better way.

Thanks for your feedback. Though I was doing really well using my categories to rank and writing posts , no pages.

As far as linking. I meant something like this: my-domain.com/category/post >> now becomes >> my-domain.com/page-with-category-name-and-301-redirect-from-category/post

also:

my-domain.com/category/sub-category/post >> now becomes >> my-domain.com/page-with-sub-category-name-and-301-redirect-from-sub-category/post (here I don’t even add the category page for before the subcategory page).

Does this make sense?

Gone are the days when categories used to rank on Google search. Now we need to create pages for all potential keywords. From categories, you can add canonical tags to their respective pages. You don’t need to create too many links for the home page as it’s going to rank for brand queries only most of the time. Focus more on promoting your internal pages.

How are you. Thanks for this post, it’s very helpful.

I created my site using categories and subcategories, and wrote up the content specific to each one. Some posts were indexed into 1 or 2 categories.

After taking some advice from another marketer to create pages with the same names as categories and create 301 links from the categories to the pages, also changing the menu to include pages and not categories any longer… my site lost domain authority by more than half.

I linked to the home page from posts and to the pages that I newly created for the categories, but I’m now noticing my page authority increasing and the domain authority decreasing. Also, my site is decreasing in Alexa ranking.

Also, I’ve created the pages and even the pages for the sub-categories to go straight to the home page, ex: “domain-name-here.com/page”.

I’m thinking I screwed up big time.

Any words of advice from your experience? Thanks in advance.

Hi Aakash, what you said is absolutely right “It’s always a good practice to create main pages from the beginning and then supportive pages which you can interlink to main pages. It can easily pass lots of good link juice to around one topic”. Make sure also to build links from other sites for better SEO.

You can always link to other posts in the same category. In fact, it’s a great way to create a deep silo structure for improving your SEO. So yes, it’s a great way, go ahead. Also make sure to build links to your main blog posts so it ranks well.

One quick tip is don’t use too many pages. Publish absolutely needed pages which you can later use as categories (which you can easily show them up as silos using your menus) as we’re currently showing at Bloggers Passion.

You can do that too! But if you’re created a solo dedicated page for Silos, make sure it’s detailed and highly informative and also build backlinks to that page for better organic rankings.

That’s so true. Silos are not only helpful for search engines but they also help your readers to easily find your contents even if you’ve a lot of blog posts. So true about taking time to create your Silos and yea it sometimes even takes weeks especially if you’ve already published a lot of blog posts in various categories.

Silo structures is quite popular in these days and many bloggers have implemented these techniques to outrank them in search engines. Creating silo structure for your blog needs a lot of time, patience, and dedication. This cannot be achieved in few days. It is a constructive process which tech years to build a pillar of quality content. Thanks for sharing these great and helpful tips with us.

Regards,
Vishwajeet Kumar

i followed this post from the Facebook group. I must admit that I have learnt alot.

i have a question for you sir.

SEO wise, is it advisable to uses pages as menu on a header or use categories.

those pages if well optimized, do the rank?

Thanks as i anticipate your answer

Thanks for this post!

Do you like the idea of linking to one of your posts (typical info post like how to type) from the category and do you think it will be considered as silo?

For instance, in one of my sites, here’s how I structured my menu bar!

– Toys (broad category)
– Remote Control Toys (sub category)
– Top 10 best remote control car (my money article)

Do you think it’s a good practice?

I can email you my site URL too just in case if you wanna know what I am talking about!

Looking forward to hearing back from you!

Cheers,
Shakir

This is great guide for beginners and intermediate SEOs. Recently, I started a new blog and I was looking for perfect silo structure guide and I came across this guide.

It’s good practice to have to create main pages from the beginning and then supportive pages interlink to main pages. This way we can pass good link juice to around one topic. What do you say?

Regards,
Aakash