I ve two site with ghost and i love it, but I wonder what is the ratio of having only Tags instead Categories and tags.
I know that with hierarchical tags we can do almost anything (simply calling a Tag “category folder” would suffice) but i cannot see a strong reason for not having those.
Really a core to me is unneccessary complexity when a post is typically in a specific tag/topic. Mixed topics is typically due to a hedging piece of content where you didn’t really have the direction locked in prior. Also Categories and Tags are the same thing in the end, do you somehow not like the term “tag”?
Coming from WordPress where tags are a dead thing and basically never used only having one divider makes me much better when writing to focus on the actual angle I am writing and topic.
I consider Catergory like a “vertical” thing, while tags are more “horizontal”.
for example
i do a post about decision making, the category is “decision making”, the tags are “Author who invented” “executive” “quick tips” “company name” “book 1 i quoted in the post”.
Then i make another post, this time about productivity, category: “productivity” - Tags “author 2” “book 1 i quoted in the post”. “book 2 i quoted in the post”.
in this way i can silo all my content by category but also jump coz “book 1” is source of different post.
But in honesty is anyone using them? Because long ago they lost viability as “SEO” as those bulk pages never rank. If you use the term you could still just link to the term, just not seeing how this helps other makes you feel like it’s good.
for me it s not a matter of SEO, but linking my thinking. but again it s just me
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I can relate to this. If you use a theme like headline you can sort your home page according to tags which makes it a bit more like having categories. Even though cross posting in between tags would make stories show up on several locations.
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Using subcategories [tags] is quite common even in Wordpress. Especially for magazines using Wordpress, and there are plenty of those out there. Also other platforms for website constructions use subcategories/tags or whatever one like to call them.
Maybe if one write about a thin topic they are not necessary but for headline news, sports, culture etc they are used to sort content out and make it easy for ones self as an editor and for ones readers.
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