Category page in SERPS search

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  • October 12, 2016 at 5:19 pm #282338

    Naomi Lolley
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    Individual business listings are showing up in a Google SERP page, and I’m happy with that. However, my client wants a “category” page to be evident in Google SERP.

    I know a user can visit our directory page and search for plumbers (for instance), and the directory on our website will show all plumbers. This is a search query within our website.

    However, the client wants a plumber page (not just a search query) that will list all the plumbers, so that this plumber page will show up on a Google search in our city for plumbers.

    Do I need to create a website page for each category and develop a script to pull all plumber listings to that new page in order for it to show up as a category page in Google SERP?

    Not sure how to proceed to have category pages show up in Google SERPs, or if I need to research a different plugin or custom solution.

    October 12, 2016 at 5:47 pm #282348

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    you have a category page for each city by default. However it is up to Google to index it and rank it in his search results.

    The only thing that you can do on your side is make sure it has the best possible content. For example you should add a category description, to make sure Gooogle will find that page for a description too and not only for a list of plumbers, which will make it more valuable for Google.

    Other than that, you’ll need to get some external backlinks from other website to this page if you want Google to rank it high. There is no plugin or custom solution that will make this happen automatically. Google doesn’t let you manipulate his search result that easily…

    Thanks

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