Comments on: Here’s How Many Categories Your Blog Should Have (Use More At Your Own Risk)

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:27:00 +0000

Hey Derek,

Lots of good advice there. I’ve got to take some time to digest all the info you’ve written here. I do agree that having too many categories is not so good

By: knev

knev — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:35:11 +0000

Thanks for good seo advice, cutting down the number of category

By: kevin blumer

kevin blumer — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:21:26 +0000

myself i had lots of then i went down to about 5 since i moved down to five my blog has done a lot better plus i seem to get a lot more visitors so to me the more you have the less traffic you will get

By: Tushar

Tushar — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:21:20 +0000

Apart from ensuring sanity in your blog, categories also help you ensure clarity in thinking. and what happened if my blog have more.? plz reply/.

By: Car Tuning

Car Tuning — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:59:20 +0000

CMON MAN “Here’s how many categories you should have”….

and you didn’t give a single number…

all I see is it said your article should fall in 3 to 8 categories..

So how many categories is best- 10, 20, 30, 100?

By: Michal Levi

Michal Levi — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:34:20 +0000

Thank you so much!
Up until now i didn’t really knew the difference between tags and categories.
You made it clear for me.
Thanks again.

By: John the Self Esteem Guy

John the Self Esteem Guy — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:00:38 +0000

Thanks a lot. This was a long post, but it goes into just the right amount of detail to make it clear. I find it really requires a lot of thought beforehand to choose categories and decide which posts go into which category, as the topics often overlap.

By: Sean Davis

Sean Davis — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:23:30 +0000

In reply to Roger Dooley. I agree 100%. I don't have a crazy number of categories but I do tag a lot. The categories are more important to me, though. I'm not even sure if there's room to reduce my categories. Maybe I can rename them to make them more helpful, though.

By: Bella Bellini

Bella Bellini — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:25:29 +0000

Great advice. I really have to edit my categories and I’m launching a few new niche blogs soon. So I’ll really have to restrain myself! The pointer about 10 to 20 articles per category is the perfect concrete helpful tip.

By: Kathy James

Kathy James — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:17:40 +0000

Very useful information Derek,
Its encouraged me to clean up my categories somewhat, something that I know I should have tackled a while ago.
I am trying to pare them down to broader categories. Silly me when I started ShrinkRap 4 years ago I made a category for everything conceivable under the sun 🙂 So I have a tedious amount of work ahead of me oh well!