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Say my websites about fruits. I have categories for all the different fruits, apples, bananas, mango, etc. I put anything that is related to them under those categories but I have tons of articles that pertain to just fruits in general. Does it hurt the overall sites health if I am posting all those articles about fruits under one category like "All fruit stuff"?
 
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You can have 2 categories for same post
 
Wouldn't have too much of an effect if it's a relatively small site
however, if it isn't & if your site is just purely about fruits

I would suggest you categorize them into something like

Berries
Citrus
Melons
Tropical
etc
 
xReminisce said:
Wouldn't have too much of an effect if it's a relatively small site
however, if it isn't & if your site is just purely about fruits

I would suggest you categorize them into something like

Berries
Citrus
Melons
Tropical
etc
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What if I already have hundreds of posts in that category already. Would it be a bad idea to add subcategories and change the existing posts to those sub categories, since the urls are already like “website.c0m/post-title/“.

It won’t change the url structure so it wouldn’t hurt it right? Would me not doing this potentially have an effect on SEO? Just curious.
 
Add them to General category. You can also mark 2-3 categories if the article covers multiple fruits. I wouldn't suggest you to add a ton of sub-categories. The users should be able to reach any article within 3 clicks.
 
Starblazer said:
Add them to General category. You can also mark 2-3 categories if the article covers multiple fruits. I wouldn't suggest you to add a ton of sub-categories. The users should be able to reach any article within 3 clicks.
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That’s what I have most of the under. A category listed pretty much as “general” with 100s of related articles. So this is fine and would have no affect on rankings and what not? Just making sure.
 
popbradley said:
That’s what I have most of the under. A category listed pretty much as “general” with 100s of related articles. So this is fine and would have no affect on rankings and what not? Just making sure.
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Yes, this is fine and it's the standard practice.
 
popbradley said:
What if I already have hundreds of posts in that category already. Would it be a bad idea to add subcategories and change the existing posts to those sub categories, since the urls are already like “website.c0m/post-title/“.

It won’t change the url structure so it wouldn’t hurt it right? Would me not doing this potentially have an effect on SEO? Just curious.
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Don't change your url structure if they are already ranking and old pages, it's not worth the effort & potential ranking loss

Instead, make "custom" category under pages (assuming you are working on wordpress) and have it defined there.
Or have those labels under tags instead
It's all just for user friendliness for site navigation on your site.
 
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