Blog how many categories

Functional example can be found here where I created a page that displays only blog posts from the visual category. Andy thank you for your answer. I am not sure that I understood well. You refered that with this method you suggest that my articles will be put in different categories, which is important.

But I am not sure that with this method I will have a menu of navigation. When somebody click in a category in menu, will see the category page with a list of titles of articles. What I posted is a somewhat complex solution. First, take a look at this very basic demo I threw together. You can still put taxonomies categories on the pages, but the way the blog pages are set up, the taxonomies have no influence over how the pages are grouped.

Plus, that also includes quite a few players. Some day, I will go back and sort that out. I try to keep my category list to across my 3 blogs. I tend to just surf elsewhere.

But I had over posts when it started to annoy me and what do I do? Change the previous posts? Parallel with them I do tagging, and number of tags is unlimited… they go just naturally, sorting themselves and connect posts…..

I have 12, but until I counted them I thought I was well under My main blog, which is the oldest one, has the most categories about 40 or so.

Some of them are no longer active, others probably could be culled. My blog is page-per-topic rather than page-per-post. As few as possible. However, since the category becomes part of the URL for the post, if the post is important enough or different enough from other categories, I will add a category for SEO.

I will also use subcategories for the same reason. My blog has 47 categories. That is high, but my categories double as Technorati tags, so I try to keep them as specific as possible. I also think that specific tags make it easier for readers to find the information they are looking for. Fewer categories might make for a cleaner sidebar, but they are not good for information retrieval.

Two of my blogs are archived without categories, and when I added categories to them, it became overwhelming how many there could have been.

I decided that all my blogs blogger and wp would have between categories…. I have around 30 with only posts. The only reason is you have to think fo future. You cant just stick to one category and keep filling it till you have enough post. You need to keep growing and fit to specific category to make it richer. Sometimes you might like to drop some and move some to other. It depends how you look into long term. I only have 7 categories. Should I Index tags or categories? Transactional versus Informational queries Understanding the difference between transactional when a user wants to buy a good or service and informative queries is closely linked to all the above.

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Question is, how many categories are the right amount? What should those categories be? I follow this simple formula: Part 1: A persuasive headline that includes the category text.

Part 3: An optin-form to sign up for more updates Part 4: Links to your articles in that category Why do I follow this formula? How confusing is that?