So let's say you offer a line of candies on your website, with limited varieties in each category. And, you create a menu linking to each specific subcategory, such as hard candies, chocolate candies, etc. And, maybe there are only one or two items in each subcategory. In our example, let's suppose that one of the subcategories is sour candy with only two products featured, such as sour gummy candy and sour lollipops. So, basically you have two items featured. If you include a submenu link in your navigation to each one of these pages, do you think Google will claim those pages have little value? Would it be better to try to group all products into a much broader category so as to enhance the content on the main subcategory page?
Google seems to be obsessed with ensuring that pages have the most content possible. And, this is especially true on shopping sites. But, on sites that offer limited selections (such as shopping sites), this could be an issue. Of course, you want to link to relevant products your customers would be interested in. But, then again, if you don't have enough products to feature on your main subcategory page, would you suffer some type of penalty? If so, that doesn't seem very fair as not all companies have an extensive product line.
My worry is that Google will say there is too little content on each subcategory of a menu to justify it having it's own link. This example might really be applied to any type of product line or site, even ebook stores, clothing websites, template sites, etc.
Google seems to be obsessed with ensuring that pages have the most content possible. And, this is especially true on shopping sites. But, on sites that offer limited selections (such as shopping sites), this could be an issue. Of course, you want to link to relevant products your customers would be interested in. But, then again, if you don't have enough products to feature on your main subcategory page, would you suffer some type of penalty? If so, that doesn't seem very fair as not all companies have an extensive product line.
My worry is that Google will say there is too little content on each subcategory of a menu to justify it having it's own link. This example might really be applied to any type of product line or site, even ebook stores, clothing websites, template sites, etc.
