Want to add a New Product Category To Site

But there will be sub-categories, which way is better

[linder60]

Hi Everyone,

I love your forums, and I hope that I'm posting in the right forum area. This is my first post, so I hope it makes sense to everyone.

I have a website that sells many different types of collectibles. We have mostly paper type items. I've been virtually missing in google for specific items that I search for, that I know are in the site. General searches are fine. So I'm not sure, which way to add this content and category, I figure I might as well just worry about being found anywhere, but which way is optimal for searches.

We will be adding different types of collectible sports trading cards to the site. They will be of different manufacturers as well as different sports and years. Should I just make a Sports cards collectibles information page, with alot of content, about manufacturers, types, grading and the like. And then put links on that page to separate subpages like: 1972 Topps Baseball, then make another page for that, a sub page for 1955 Bowman Football and make a sub page for that and so on.

Or would it be better to just make a category for each one, make a category in our menu and site map for 1972 Topps baseball, a separate one for the 1955 Bowman football, another for our 1953 Bowman football. I'm not sure which way would be better.

I'm figuring if I make a sports cards collectibles information page with links, I can make good use of keywords and content. And then with the subpages, have totally separate target related keywords for the specific pages. Then again I can do that if I make each one a separate category instead of a subpage.

Any advice would be great appreciated. Thank you and have a nice day.

Linda