Pro's & Con's of Wordpress Categorys & Tags
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Good Afternoon!
I touched on this question a while back in another post specifically regarding a plethora of duplicate pages that I was finding due to inappropriate tagging in wordpress. As I am going through our website, I am starting to notice it happening again with categories as well. I am including some pictures where you can see the URL structures and titles etc of how everything is laid out.
I would like to clarify that I was not the one who did any of this
Is it wrong/bad to cross categorize? What I mean by that is put something in more than one category?
Would there be any drawback to converting any of these into subcategories? Would that even do anything?
Does having two pages that are named the same thing, hurt you?
It would seem to me that Google wouldn't like that. I have recently come into the field of thought that Google is getting more and more human, and If it makes a human uncomfortable/confused it will make Google confused. In my pictures you can see we clearly have numerous hard copies of the same thing, not just duplicate elements created by wordpress, that is a separate issue.
I personally want to change all of the titles and make everything as different and individual as possible, but i also could be very wrong in my desire to do that.
Any thoughts are appreciated!
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I have some posts in wordpress in more than one category. The post doesn't exist more than one time, the other categories redirect the user to the one and only post, that exist.
So try to open the one post in one category and than the same post in another category. You will the see the same, I think there are no duplicate posts caused by categories in wordpress. It also doesn't matter if it will be two seperate parent categories or a parent and a child category.
Tipp: if you put a post in a sub-category (category/subcategory) you can selected the sub-category as the only one. The post will exist in all parents.
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