Poor internal linking?
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Hi guys,
Have a large e-commerce site 10,000 pages as a client and they are currently not getting much organic traffic to their level 3 sub-category pages, the URLs are like:
https://www.domain.com.au/category/s...-category-type
These pages have been on-page optimised, category content added, yet hardly any traffic. However the site level 1, level 2 pages do quite well.
So this suggests this might be an internal linking issue?
The site is definitely not penalized and as enough authority for these level 3 pages to rank.
Any ideas would be very much appreciated!
Cheers.
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Imo internal Link-structure could help or be a problem, but its hard to say, maybe These Pages are Ranking exactly where they should rank. May be its not necessary to have These categories or they cannibalize, hard to say without Note Info.
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