What is Taxonomy?
Answered across 3 episodes of The Best SEO Podcast
The structured classification of terms and their relationships, used in e-commerce search to connect broad queries to the correct products or content.
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The structured classification of terms and their relationships, used in e-commerce search to connect broad queries to the correct products or content.
The way content is organized into topical categories, subcategories, and tertiary categories, requiring collaboration across SEO, product, UX, UI, content, and leadership teams.
From Smart Content & Smart SEO: Mastering Audiences & Architecture by Michael Kirchhoff #401
A way to group similar content in WordPress, such as categories and tags, whose description fields can rank in search and appear as SERP descriptions.
From What to watch out for on Self Hosted Wordpress Websites - #seopodcast 192
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