WordPress offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to organizing your blog posts.  You create blog categories and tags on the fly as you write each article.  Other than having to put every article into a category (and it defaults to the “Uncategorized” category if you forget to select one!) there really are no hard and fast rules.  You can put the same article into multiple categories and create as many tags as you want to further classify the content.  When you first start out, this all seems great.  But after you’ve been blogging for a while, adding more and more categories with each post , you’ll notice that your blog eventually becomes cluttered and disorganized.  It’s hard to find older articles because you can’t remember which category you placed them in and the same articles keep appearing over and over because you put them in too many places.

The worst part is all of this duplication of copy can actually cause you to be penalized in Google.  Read More