Two ways to categorise my site, which is best?

[Snowdune]

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[RossKernez]

Hi Andy,

That's a great question. I would keep the main categories as close as possible to the root domain.

My silo structure would look something like this:

webiste.com/washing-machines - Main category

webiste.com/washing-machines/safety-issues  - Subcategory

webiste.com/washing-machines/reviews - Subcategory

webiste.com/washing-machines/spares -Subcategory

webiste.com/washing-machines/buying - Subcategory

Ross

[Snowdune]

Many thanks Ross. Is it okay to not have any actual articles in the main category other than a landing page acting like an index page for each of the 5 sub- categories?

[RossKernez]

Hi Andy,

Yes, that's exactly how I would do.  I would use the main category page as an index and link internally from that page to your subcategories with the exact match anchor texts of your targeted keywords.

Ross

[Snowdune]

Thanks Ross. One final question please? I've started re categorising.  But after creating new categories and moving a dozen articles to them I woke up this morning with a slight panic thinking will this break any links or does Wordpress manage changing categories nicely? I'd appreciate an answer before I keep on this track.

[Snowdune]

I have double checked before and after and when I move an article to a different category the original link just gets diverted to the new category so it appears as if that is okay? When you see a URL I have it set to not actually show the category in the URL, just the website name/article name

[Snowdune]

Something seems to have gone wrong. I spent all day changing categories but wordpress started acting weird. It seemed to not like  several subcategories using the exact same title i.e "Using".

I had "washing machines/using"  and "Dishwashers/using" -  but now when I click  Washing machines/using it's listing a dishwasher article at the top. When I double check the article it is definitely only categorised under Dishwashers/using. I've had to undo all my days work with a restore.

I don't know if anything just went wrong but can someone confirm if it is OK to have multiple exact same sub category names under different main categories?

[RossKernez]

Hi Snowdune,

Sorry to hear that. What SEO plugin are you using to rename these categories?

Ross

[Snowdune]

Thanks for replying  Ross. I did it all manually inside WordPress. I didn't even realise I could batch change categories I literally went to every article and updated its category manually.

I did notice that when updating 1 of the articles  I lost Internet connection after I'd clicked update for about 20 seconds. I wonder if that could have caused a problem? As long as it is definitely okay to have the exact same sub category many times as long as they are under different main categories then I can start again and hope it goes a bit better this time.

I'm not sure if the slug has to be unique though?

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