How can we improve rankings for category pages

[rsanchez]

Hi Everyone,

I have a dog breeder site I'm working on and I was wondering if I could get some tips and ideas on things to do to help the "category" pages rank better in search engines.

Let's say I have "xyz" breed category page which has listings of all dog breeders who offer that particular breed, in this case "xyz".

I have certain breeder profile listings which rank higher for those terms that the category page should be ranking for.  So I'm guessing Google thinks those breeder profile pages are more relevant for those terms.  Especially if well optimized.

I know thin content may be my problem here, but one of our competitors dominates the rankings for relevant keywords with no content on their category pages.

What do you all suggest?

[loopyal]

I don't know why you would want category pages to rank, especially if the content changes from time to time.

By the time they appear in search results and reders click on them, the content has changed, and what they were looking for is no longer there.

If it is still there, they have to look through the page for what they really wanted.