Creating "Top products" of each category to give them relevance

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Creating "Top products" of each category to give them relevance

However, I would link 1,000 products of each category

guarriman3

11:45 am on Jul 9, 2024 (gmt 0)

I manage a website divided into:
- Home page, that link 35 categories
- 35 categories, that link a total of 2,500 subcategories
- 2,500 subcategories, that link a total of 400,000 products

I want to give more relevance to just 35,000 products (top products, with higher profitability) over the total 400,000 products.

I'm trying to analyze the option to create 35 pages called "Top products of category X" (one per category), where 1,000 products (on average for each category) are dofollow-linked in each one of them. Each one of these "Top products of category X" would be "noindex" (to avoid jeopardization) and "follow".

- Will these strategy work to give more relevance for the 35,000 products?
- Will the introduction of 1,000 links work on one single webpage? I've read that the maximum number of links per page is 100-200.

not2easy

12:36 pm on Jul 9, 2024 (gmt 0)

Why noindex the pages you want people to find? It could be more productive to expand on the features and benefits of those better products. The term 'follow' is not used because it is default bot behavior, only "nofollow" has meaning to bots. It seems that you would want only bots to see the pages, and it can bring no benefit because it looks like "SEO engineering" (or over-optimizing).

_{Of course, now with AI it could work?}

guarriman3

4:03 pm on Jul 9, 2024 (gmt 0)

Thank you very much for your answer.

Why noindex the pages you want people to find?

Because 95% of the searches towards my webpages launch at 'example.com/product/acme-xxx' through the specific names of the products ("Acme XXX"). Only 5% launch at 'example.com/category/tools-type-1'. If I index 'example.com/top-products-category/tools-type-1', I would be jeopardizing between the keywords
- Tools of Type 1 (low number of searches), and
- Best tools of Type 1 (even lower number of searches)

The term 'follow' is not used because it is default bot behavior

Yep. I mentioned it just to underline that the links inside these pages for top-products would not be 'nofollow'.

Of course, now with AI it could work?

Sorry, I did not get it. What can I do with ChatGPT or Gemini? Should I ask them this question?

it can bring no benefit because it looks like "SEO engineering" (or over-optimizing)

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I've heard about "over-optimizing" keywords, but IMHO I'm just giving more relevance to some specific URLs, and trying to avoid duplicate content (two pages with similar information for the same category).

By the way, I forgot to mention that 99% of the URLs of my website are indexed.

not2easy

4:49 pm on Jul 9, 2024 (gmt 0)

If they are noindexed, they can only be found through your site. The navigation does not seem intuitive. I'm sure I've missed something in the planned implementation.

The AI mention was kind of a dig at how serps seem to be functioning today, not a real suggestion.

guarriman3

11:59 am on Jul 10, 2024 (gmt 0)

I'm sure I've missed something in the planned implementation.

Yes, I may be approaching it in a very naive way.

My initial target is to give more relevance to just 35,000 products. If I link 35,000 URLs from the home page, I would be creating a non-usable initial page.

So I was considering two options:

1) Insert the 35,000 links from each one of the current 35 categories (1,000 URLs from each category), but I initially considered that the current categories should be used to link the subcategories

2) Insert the 35,000 links from each one a brand-new 35 'top-categories' (1,000 URLs from each 'top-category'). Due to fact that nobody searches "Best tools of category 1", I considered that these 'top-categories' should be 'noindex'. In this way, I would be transferring the relevance directly from the front page to each of the 35,000 links.

As a mention. This may be a very naive approach.