Categories and Tags
Categories and tags play a large part in how your content is displayed on your website, making it crucial they are properly organized.
Categories:
Your categories will need to be streamlined and likely downsized to 10-15 if possible. The goal of categories is to provide a way to group like content based on a theme. As a general rule of thumb, posts should really only have 1 category. This was a shift we made in the rebrand phase of the network from how sites used to handle assigning categories.
We have compiled a list of recommended categories and their sub-categories for you to consider as you reorganize your site.
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As it relates to Categories, you will need to determine which ones you are keeping, renaming and/or deleting. We’ve developed a VERY thorough guide on best practices for editing Categories. Please read through everything carefully and feel free to ask questions as needed.
** IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT delete categories completely. Simply make a note of the categories you would like to have deleted, submit a tech ticket and we will handle deleting them for you. Why? Since many of our sites use Categories in their URL structure, we will need to create redirects for the posts within that category. To save you time and a potential headache, we are able to handle those for you.
Tags:
Tags can get unruly rather quickly and if you are looking through them to clean up, they will likely take the most time! Tags, while not at the top of the food chain like Categories, are still an important piece in organizing your content as they have a closer relationship to the actual content. Think of them as keywords if you will. With that being said, tags are still often overdone, resulting in unnecessary redundancies. Watch this video for more information on why tags are important and the role they play in content organization: Tips on how to handle Categories and Tags.