New big project - need help with categories

Zbigniew

Zbigniew

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Hey guys,

I have been doing some smaller niche sites for the past year. Some of them failed and some succeeded.

I am now planning a bigger project. It will be a big general site in my native language, where the competition is not massive. However, I have different ideas on how to structure my site/categories and would appreciate some input from experienced people.

Lets say I will write about things such as:

Politics
Science
Health
Fashion
Personal development

One alternative is to have child categories, so it would look like this:

Domain.com/politics/parties/post
Domain.com/politics/events/post
Domain.com/politics/politicians/post

Domain.com/health/nutrition/post
Domain.com/health/training/post
Domain.com/health/research/post

You get the picture.

Second alternative is that I don't use any child categories, much like mensjournal.com (Mod please just delete link if you must and not the whole thread, obviously not my site)

They collect all posts about health under health, no matter if it's about brain health, nutrition or training.

I will be the only one writing, so I will not be able to pump out 20 articles a week. But surely 1-5 posts per week, and I aim at doing so for years forward. Because of that reason I would like to start out properly.

What would you guys do and why?

Thanks in advance.


Zbigniew
 
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Probly without child categories because very often some posts will be in few of them and if you work alone some categories will be look empty.
 
Dhduyd said:
Probly without child categories because very often some posts will be in few of them and if you work alone some categories will be look empty.
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Good feedback, exactly what I was thinking aswell. Thanks!
 
As you have mentioned that it's a big project there won't be empty categories overtime, it's up to you fill all categories with posts. However at the initial stage, it'll will look empty, but in the long run, you should be fine, see the big picture....Rome wasn't built in a day,
in general people likes to see organized content
and you'll rank your category pages too.
 
jasmine.davis.123 said:
As you have mentioned that it's a big project there won't be empty categories overtime, it's up to you fill all categories with posts. However at the initial stage, it'll will look empty, but in the long run, you should be fine, see the big picture....Rome wasn't built in a day,
in general people likes to see organized content
and you'll rank your category pages too.
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Very true. Thanks
 
To tell you my real opinion, I will not go 'that big' if I will write the content myself.
I am planning a big site that will be started next month, it will cover one big niche only, lets say "health". It will have 8-10 categories, from acne, cholesterol, diabetes, and so on. I will never do it if I will be the only one who will write the articles. Even IF I am a good and fast native writer, I will still not target that big topic.
Regarding categories, I prefer use 'child categories', it will be easier for me to manage, based on my experience.
 
So I decided to go with child categories, but now I'm afraid of duplicate content.

Let's say I have these two categories:

Health > Training

Health is the main category, training is the child.

When I publish a post under training, it will appear in both categories. Will this not result in duplicate content?

@MisterF you are a the man. Do you have any advise on this?

Thanks!
 
I'm thinking about using noindex in this case for the categories, but wouldn't that bother my link juice flow among the posts?
 
Create a page under Politician---->Parties ----> Post the content here. You won't get duplicate of the same post. You need to create pages under main Categories.
 
dreamwork4u said:
Create a page under Politician---->Parties ----> Post the content here. You won't get duplicate of the same post. You need to create pages under main Categories.
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Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean.
Do you have a reference I can read from or explain as if I was 8? :anyway:
 
You already created the Categories?? You know.how to add the pages under Categories??
 
dreamwork4u said:
You already created the Categories?? You know.how to add the pages under Categories??
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Yes I have the categories. No, I don't see any option in wordpress to add a page to category. I was under the impression that categories only applied to posts.
 
So I have a post called "Benchpress"

It's under category training, which is a sub category to health.

The URL is domain.com/health/training/benchpress

In other means my post shows up in both health and training category. I assume this is seen as duplicate content? I wonder if this will be a problem. I'm not sure what you mean by creating a page for a category.
 
You can have semi virtual silos.

Like this:

Domain.com/health/nutrition/
Domain.com/health/training/
Domain.com/health/research/

but then url to post is still domain.com/health/post
 
iliketurtlez said:
You can have semi virtual silos.

Like this:

Domain.com/health/nutrition/
Domain.com/health/training/
Domain.com/health/research/

but then url to post is still domain.com/health/post
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I assume even domain.com/postname too then.

So my category pages will not be duplicates in above case?
 
Yeah but then the risk of wanting to post a post with url slug that is already taken increases.

No its not duplicates.
 
ascura said:
To tell you my real opinion, I will not go 'that big' if I will write the content myself.
I am planning a big site that will be started next month, it will cover one big niche only, lets say "health". It will have 8-10 categories, from acne, cholesterol, diabetes, and so on. I will never do it if I will be the only one who will write the articles. Even IF I am a good and fast native writer, I will still not target that big topic.
Regarding categories, I prefer use 'child categories', it will be easier for me to manage, based on my experience.
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will you interlink those category

How can you link those category togheter

they are different... diabetic, hairs..
 
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