My site’s index page is: https://danscartoons.com and my blog page is: https://danscartoons.com/toonblog/ and this is my question…if I want my category pagesto appear higher than they already are in the search results, will a specific blog post about a specific category page like this one: https://danscartoons.com/cartoon-category/construction (on the “toonblog” page) help to get it on say, the first page of the search results? I ask this since I can’t figure out how to get that cartoon-category/construction page to show up on the first page of Google…so am curious.
I have almost 62 other inside category pages similar to the cartoon-category/construction page. I was thinking of writing a post about construction humor and how adding cartoons in a prospective client’s publishing project would assist them, then use the Yoast plugin to add a keyword title, add a text hyperlink to the cartoon-category/construction page from within the toonblog post?
Any insights appreciated and I would appreciate your insights…
I cannot see how that would help.
Any links from the blog page to the category page will be internal lnks, and while they may help search engine crawlers find your content, they won’t affect SERPs.
If the category page is not appearing in search results for the relevant keyword, writing a blog post about it will not make it do so, although it’s possible that the post will appear in the results and people will then reach the category page via a link from the post.
I see. So in order to get a category page page to show on say, the first page of search result for the search term “family cartoons”, do you think creating a custom field and input relevent text regarding that page’s content to be more appropriate? Right now, I think the last time I search and experimented, that specific category page was on the 7th page of search results. It’s a bit disheartening after spending months and months laying out a site, re-building it, trying to optimize it, re-launching it etc. only to see it just floating in cyber-space.
The content of the page is the most important factor. Google looks for those pages which it thinks most closely match the search terms used. Where the bulk of the page is images, I would imagine it’s more difficult to match search terms. You may have a category page for “construction” jokes, but it’s unlikely that the term “construction” would appear in the captions for many of them. Naming everything “construction cartoon 1”, “construction cartoon 2” etc. may not be helping, as it looks a little Spammy to me and may look that way to Google, too. (That’s just a guess on my part.) However, where your page is so heavily dependent on images, you really should have alt text for them. Search engines cannot read cartoons, so in the absence of alt text, there is nothing at all to indicate what these images are about. Turn off images and frankly, your page has no content for a search engine to index.
Other than that, the best I can suggest is that you write an introductory post for each of your category pages (on the relevant page, not on your blog) wit information about that category. Maybe add some interesting snippets, such as where you find your inspiration, or mention a favourite cartoon.
This is then my next question…I go to that specific page in my wp-admin, and why can’t I add descriptive text to the page in the area where I’ve add red color text? WP can be so frustrating…and constructive criticism, feel free. I try and avoid relying on plugins…if there is another way, let me know. Thank you
I would suggest asking that question over in the CMS & WordPress forum, as it’s a separate issue. (I don’t use WordPress, so I can’t help with that)
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