# Task: Interlink ranking guide pages into commercial category pages

## Role
You are a SEO content strategist. Produce the deliverable below for a human reviewer. Do not publish or change production systems.

## Target
- Site: Legacy Station
- Primary URL: https://www.legacystation.com
- Depth: standard
- Queue group: supporting
- Supports flagship play: Turn the guide engine into a category-ranking machine
- Read the parent play brief first for the full strategy frame (donor/target logic, complete page set): `prompts/plays/01-internal-link-engine.md`
- Affected URLs:
- https://www.legacystation.com/fasttrack-plans-and-layouts
- https://www.legacystation.com/lionel-fastrack-guide
- https://www.legacystation.com/g-scale-trains
- https://www.legacystation.com/lionel-standard-gauge-trains
- https://www.legacystation.com/o-scale-trains

## Why this matters
The site's #1-4 guide pages carry topical authority that never reaches the money pages (URL Rating 0). Contextual in-body links are the fastest fully-owned way to raise category-page authority and relevance.

## Action
1. Crawl current in-body internal links pointing to each money page to establish a baseline.
2. For each ranking guide page, add 1-3 contextual links to the matching category page with descriptive anchors.
3. Add 'related guides' / 'related categories' link blocks to each money page.
4. Produce a source->target->anchor change table for human review.

## Evidence
- Claim: Category pages are well-written but under-linked: 600-1,254 words with tailored titles/H1/meta and schema, yet URL Rating 0 and ~1 backlink. | Proof type: fetched_html | Source: https://www.legacystation.com/g-scale-trains | Observed: /g-scale-trains 1,254 words; /lionel-standard-gauge-trains 916; /mth-trains 589; /o-scale-trains 607; all with schema present; URL Rating 0 in SERP checks
- Claim: The site's informational guide/layout pages rank #1-4 and drive meaningful traffic, proving a repeatable content format. | Proof type: provider_metric | Source: https://www.legacystation.com/fasttrack-plans-and-layouts | Observed: /fasttrack-plans-and-layouts #1 (27 kw, 170 visits/mo); /lionel-fastrack-guide #4 (18 kw, 95 visits/mo); /slang/ #1-6; /blog/choosing-lionel-transformer/ #4
- Claim: On 'g scale trains for sale' (vol 300) Legacy Station ranks #9 with URL Rating 0 while a DR-19 page (URL Rating 7) ranks #2 and a DR-0 page (URL Rating 5) ranks #4. | Proof type: serp_row | Source: https://www.legacystation.com/g-scale-trains | Observed: #2 modeltrainmarket DR19/UR7; #4 mostlygscale DR0/UR5; #9 legacystation DR28/UR0/1 backlink
- Claim: On 'standard gauge trains for sale' (vol 200) Legacy Station ranks #10 with URL Rating 0, below DR-12, DR-21 and DR-3 competitors. | Proof type: serp_row | Source: https://www.legacystation.com/lionel-standard-gauge-trains | Observed: #2 grzyboskitrains DR12; #4 bradystrains DR21; #9 lonestartrains DR3; #10 legacystation DR28/UR0

## Target keywords
- g scale trains for sale | volume: 300 | CPC: 5 | current: 9 | target: 4 | URL: https://www.legacystation.com/g-scale-trains
- standard gauge trains for sale | volume: 200 | CPC: 10 | current: 10 | target: 4 | URL: https://www.legacystation.com/lionel-standard-gauge-trains

## Expected outcome
Directional; no traffic value is claimed.

## Supporting tasks
- This prompt is the primary work packet for the task.

## Deliverable
Produce a review-ready work packet for `Interlink ranking guide pages into commercial category pages` with the proposed fix, affected URLs, owner notes, QA steps, and before/after evidence to collect. Do not publish changes or touch production systems.

## Available local data
- data/audit.json - full v4 audit contract, evidence pack, value bands, and validation results
- operator-brief.md - provider provenance, confidence gates, and budget notes
- report.md - canonical text strategy context; final report.html is model-authored only

## Inputs to gather first
- Confirm the local output folder contains the files listed above.
- If a required source is missing, record the blocker and continue with a bounded draft instead of inventing evidence.
- If implementation requires CMS, repository, analytics, GSC, or deployment access, stop at a review-ready brief and list the exact access needed.

## Constraints / guardrails
- No publishing without human approval; additive edits only; descriptive anchors only.
- Do not publish, send, delete, or mutate production systems.
- Do not claim revenue, ROI, pipeline, lead value, guaranteed AI rankings, or llms.txt ranking impact.
- Treat CPC-proxy value bands as directional SEO prioritization evidence, not business revenue.

## Acceptance criteria
- Each money page gains >=3 contextual in-body internal links from relevant ranking pages.

## Definition of done
- The first section of your answer states the concrete deliverable you produced.
- Every claim is either backed by the evidence above or labeled as an assumption to validate.
- The next operator can start work without resolving audit evidence IDs.
- No external write, publish, send, delete, deployment, or paid provider action has been performed.