However if my tag was the same as my category, say I "tag" it python, all a user needs to do is browse by that tag, no?
I think Massimo's description is well, flat vs hierarchical, though most blogs end up just displaying the categories flat anyways, even if they are hierarchical on the backend. As for archives, I suppose this is why there are dates in links as well? Would it benefit to provide multiple interfaces to a post, one link such as /myapp/default/view/this-is-the-post-title and just for SEO, /myapp/default/archive/2009/11/28/this-is-the-post-title -Thadeus On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mengu <whalb...@gmail.com> wrote: > first of all, you need to keep the visitor in your blog. if the > visitor liked one of your posts, s/he would probably want to read your > other posts on the same topic or any other topic s/he's interested in. > archives are very good for this as well as tags. > > second of all, the keyword "archive" is important for seo. as the bots > also check your archive you can easily be found on the engines. > > > On Dec 1, 8:26 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > I think the difference is that tags are flat, categories are supposed > > to have a hierarchical structure. Usually categories are set by the > > administrator, not by users, as in the case of tags. > > > > On Nov 30, 9:52 pm, Victor <victor.akuj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Really, I'm no expert, maybe categories are for SEO. However I > > > believe that tags are more searchable, and you can have as many as you > > > want. For example, look at engadget, each post has loads of tags. but > > > fewer categories. I'ld say Categories to allow people look at your > > > information and tags to add to the keywords meta tag on each post page > > > for SEO. Once again I'm no expert, just a physics student who loves to > > > code python and web2py. > > > But then again Its one of tose questions that make you think. > > > > > Victor > > > > > On Nov 30, 3:30 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > > > > > > I was just curious why most blogs have archive then? Is it for S.E.O. > ? > > > > > > If you have a tagging system, would you really need categories?, > since tags > > > > are basically a "category cloud".... DO you really need both, how do > > > > categories interact with tags? > > > > > > -Thadeus > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Victor <victor.akuj...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > IMHO, It's better to use categories because people would generally > > > > > visit your blog looking for posts on a topic (JQuery, Web2py, > > > > > Photoshop etc), if you had an "Older/Newer posts" link, then thats > > > > > fine. > > > > > > > On Nov 29, 10:43 am, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> > wrote: > > > > > > What is the benefit or reason for having date-sorted archive > links on a > > > > > > blog? > > > > > > > > -Thadeus > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > > > "web2py-users" group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<web2py%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <web2py%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<web2py%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > > > > . > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<web2py%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
