Over 100 categories – better way to display them?

  • Hello,

    My site is https://www.comicnerd.com. Comic Books are reviewed, and when listing comic books, I often assign comic titles, writers, publishers and illustrators for each comic. Over time I have accumulated a TON of categories doing this and it is just clogging up the page.

    I have seen only a couple plugins that puts categories in a JS drop-down or the like – but I am concerned about the SEO impact this will make on the page.

    Does anyone have any solution suggestions to decongest my sidebar and show the categories more intelligently?

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    Also, is there a way to give the reader an option of navigating the site only with certain categories to view? like if someone only wanted to see Marvel comics related posts, they can select a view to only see those categories/posts?

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  • Perhaps just rethink your categories, and create more sub-categories of sub-categories? Let your visitors dig through to content that’s more and more specific.

    One way to do it would be through the Alphabet, but that’s not very user or SEO friendly.

    I see you have things like ‘action comics’ and then another category like ‘Ale Garza.’ Perhaps you could just have the main categories be ‘Action Comics’, ‘Image Comics’, etc, and then have the respective comics in each category. You could then have subcategories in that of authors, and then titles, and then posts.

    Thread Starter comicnerd

    (@comicnerd)

    Hey thanks for the suggestion, but I think at this point the site is too big to be cutting out categories, I have over 250 posts and I am worried if I move or truncate categories that it will affect search engine indexing or get rid of posts altogether.

    I was hoping someone might have had a plugin solution suggestion to handle tons of categories….

    Thread Starter comicnerd

    (@comicnerd)

    Bump again.

    thanks

    Thread Starter comicnerd

    (@comicnerd)

    Bumping again

    Thanks

    Thread Starter comicnerd

    (@comicnerd)

    Hope someone might have a solution in the new year.

    Thanks

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    Please refrain from bumping as per Forum Rules

    You are simply over-using categories if you have that many. Your categories should be general…use tags to get more specific. To build on what @kmknight suggested, if you have categories for ‘Action Comics’, ‘Image Comics’, etc., then maybe you should think about having a category for Comics and use tags to get more specific.

    Just a thought…

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