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categories...do i really need them?

by Adam Moran
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hi what are your thoughts regarding categories?
do you have to have them? if you have many posts on different subjects, why do you need categories, can you leave it in the no category option or can i loose here something with seo?
thanks a lot!
#categoriesdo
  • Profile picture of the author rahmat
    Here is an explanation from http://en.support.wordpress.com
    Categories provide a helpful way to group related posts together, and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Categories also make it easier for people to find your content. Categories are similar to, but broader than, tags.
    Categories allowed for a broad grouping of post topics, but when you wanted to describe a post in more specific terms, more categories were required. That led to very long category lists inside the blog and very long lists in Categories Widgets.
    So we now have tags, too.
    Tags are similar to categories, but they are generally used to describe your post in more detail.
    In my opinion, you should still have categories. Make it broad enough so that a category can consists of several posts.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Moran
    Thanks for those answers guys really helped me!
    amm just one small question , what would you do if its a niche site around 1 keyword most of the times? would you still put the posts in this site to categories?
    Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author rahmat
      Originally Posted by molan View Post

      Thanks for those answers guys really helped me!
      amm just one small question , what would you do if its a niche site around 1 keyword most of the times? would you still put the posts in this site to categories?
      Thanks!
      What works for me is that categories are for human readers, for them to have a good user experience when browsing the site. So I will get a broad category that people understand, and not based on specific keyword. For search engine, I use tags, that use specific keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    Categories (and tags) are WordPress' filing system, so if you have a reasonable number of articles on your site it's definitely worth using them.

    More details here:

    Optimise WordPress with Categories and Tags | WealthyDragon

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Yes you lose with seo, without the category.

    It's a free page that you could rank in the SERPs, which gets the traffic one step closer to making a sale.

    That's the whole point of IM!



    Originally Posted by molan View Post

    hi what are your thoughts regarding categories?
    do you have to have them? if you have many posts on different subjects, why do you need categories, can you leave it in the no category option or can i loose here something with seo?
    thanks a lot!
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