hello there

this may be an annoying question, but have run into a bit of a dilemma. i am trying to figure out whether i need actual individual categories or if i should use the tags as categories. the search bar i have for my site is quite powerful and searches anything i type into it effectively. even random words such as "often" bring up articles.

my thought was that since i have a broad topic already (life through the yoga lens) my category should be simply "articles" and tags would act as categories.

does anyone have pros vs cons they could offer me on that?

Hi Matt,

I think maybe a more sophisticated search plugin might help. Look at this one wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-sphinx-search/

There are a few other you can find be searching the wordpress.org plugins directory.

You might also publish a page with a site map to help people see the overall structure of the site.

There's nothing wrong with finding any word. Sometimes somebody searching only remembers a word or phrase from a post and that's all they can search for. I think you just need to add the capability to refine it through an advanced search for people looking for something more specific.

Cheers,
Ed

Thanks Ed!

I'll check out the plugin when i get a chance. Do you have anything that explains site maps in detail?

This article touches on it in Step 10.
www.ostraining.com/blog/wordpress/wordpress-seo-by-yoast/

But the best reference is Google Webmaster Tools. There are basically two types. the XML sitemap that you really need for SEO. A generator for that is often included in the SEO plugin you might be using.

The other is an HTML sitemap, that is easy to read by anyone. There's a plugin for that as well. wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-html-sit...ins/wp-html-sitemap/

We don't have anything written specifically on sitemaps, but Google, Yahoo and Bing have excellent info on creating and registering them.

Ed