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Hi BeamaLife, It looks like one of these pages has a bonafide inbound link and, as a result is appearing to be a bit more important than the other two. Look at them here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates.html&comparisons%5B0%5D=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates%2Falabama-life-insurance.html&comparisons%5B1%5D=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates%2Ftexas-life-insurance.html&=Compare I went to your site and found the main category page you were talking about: http://www.beamalifeinsurance.com/states.html I assume that since you are thinking about deleting this category page, you would also be deleting all of the individual subcategory pages for states that live on that page. This made me curious to look at the page authority and inbound links of some of the other state's pages like California, New York and Texas (especially because they are such big states population wise). Here's what that looked like in OSE: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates%2Fnew-york-life-insurance.html&comparisons%5B0%5D=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates%2Fcalifornia-life-insurance.html&=Compare I think I would keep them if I were you. They each have some inbound links and very decent page authority and  MozRank, expecially considering where they are in your structure. My vote - Keep them. Maybe you could find some creative ways to use your internal linking structure to make more out of the authority these pages do have? Hope that's helpful! Dana

I would change these links to this to lower the keyword density: Allstate Life Insurance Company American General Life Companies American National Insurance Company Assurity Life Insurance Company Allstate American American National Assurity Try to chill out of overly using keyword terms like "life insurance", it's three times in this URL: http://www.beamalifeinsurance.com/life-insurance-articles/low-cost-life-insurance-with-discounts.html Look at the content, mentioned too many times, and your anchor texts are probably like this on every page. Think less is better, over optimization will get the very keywords you are hoping to rank for suppressed. Lose the keyword meta tag completely for the site, it's a dead tag and stuffing like this is dangerous: <meta name="<a class="attribute-value">keywords</a>" content="alaska life insurance quotes, alaska life insurance, whole life <a class="attribute-value">insurance quotes alaska, term life insurance quotes alaska, universal life insurance quotes alaska</a>" /> Only use "life insurance" once in the title tags, is there another synonym for life insurance that you can use? <title>Pennsylvania Life Insurance Quote, Pennsylvania Life Insurance Companytitle>

I have spoken with database-expert SEO guys who swear by: domain/year/month/post-name They say for some reason referencing the year first reduces the workload of the database, making your site faster, which we know is good. On the other hand, I've always been partial to domain/post-name because it makes each blog post url short, easy to remember if done well, and relevant to your business.  I have found that having /category/ does nothing for SEO.  I used to do this on a wedding photography blog and had domain/wedding-photography/post-name.  When I changed to domain/post-name my SEO results shot up across the board.  So I'm sure /category/ hurt more than helped. I currently use domain/year/month/post-name but will be changing to domain/post-name for the future on all sites, I think.