Smart topic taxonomy for food blog SEO

Hi Siftrs,

Today's newsletter covers one of the most requested SEO topics since Siftr’s launch in September 2024: topic taxonomy for food blogs.

Here are just a few of the questions readers have sent in asking about topic taxonomy, and the right category structure and tag archive setup for a recipe site:

“I would love to learn more about categories and tags and how to appropriately set them up and use them to help boost our authority on certain topics!”

And this beauty:

“I would love to hear more about using categories and tags properly to better communicate with Google and my readers what my website is all about. I know that in years past, the advice was to use categories, optimizing and indexing them. While [tags] should largely be ignored, but if you do use them, they should be deindexed.

Why would google give us the option to index [tags] if the ‘best’ across-the-board advice is not to use them? How can we best use categories to organize our websites to help both our readers and Google know what we are all about? How many categories/[tags] are too many?”

If your category structure is a bit of a hot mess (trust us, you’re not the only one!), or if you’re looking to take better advantage of topic taxonomy to help reinforce your food blog’s areas of authority, this Siftr issue is for you.

In it, we dissect 3 examples of food blogs with strong category structures and topic taxonomies that nicely support the author’s content strategy.

Because sometimes you gotta see it to be it. 🥰 

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