What is Taxonomy?

Answered across 3 episodes of The Best SEO Podcast

Edited and curated by Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast (produced by EWR Digital).

The short answer

The structured classification of terms and their relationships, used in e-commerce search to connect broad queries to the correct products or content.

How experts on the show define it

The structured classification of terms and their relationships, used in e-commerce search to connect broad queries to the correct products or content.

From Data Management: How do you organize your DATA? Data Hierarchy, DAM, PIM, MDM and more! with Rob Neumann #488

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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