Website taxonomy is the structure we use for a website that organizes content in a logical way so that users can easily navigate the site and understand its purpose. Visually, this can look like different sections and pages within a website or categories within a blog. You have probably been working with taxonomies without knowing it all this time. Continue reading Classify Information Has Never Been So Easy!
What Is Website Taxonomy?
The organization of URLs to represent the content on particular website pages is known as URL structure, and it is related to the taxonomy of websites. All URLs on a website have the same domain, but as the page content gets more detailed, subdirectories and URLs change.
For illustration, suppose www.samplewebsite.com is the main domain of your website.
Subdirectories of your domain that are pertinent to the page’s content are part of your taxonomic structure. Therefore, the URLs would change to reflect the content presented on each page if your sample website had a “Contact” or “Announcements” page. These pages would have the corresponding URLs www.samplewebsite.com/contact and www.samplewebsite.com/announcements.
Why is a website’s taxonomy important?
When your material is arranged logically, a well-planned taxonomy can completely change how consumers engage with your website. Users will remain longer if they can easily access and obtain the information they need on your website.
Websites without a clear structure are frequently challenging for users to comprehend. In fact, a disorganized website will lose 38% of its visitors on average.
Because a taxonomic arrangement is simpler for search engine bots to detect when they examine and index your site, a correctly constructed taxonomy is also essential for search engine optimization (SEO).
Let’s use a fictitious website to put this all in perspective. Let’s say you are the website www.recipes.com’s owner. Since you are aware that your site’s visitors are searching for particular recipes, you should create categories that will make it as easy for them to find what they’re looking for. If they’re seeking dessert recipes, for instance, they’ll probably prefer to look through the proper category page rather than perusing a list of unrelated items to find those recipes.
The website address for this page is www.recipes.com/desserts. A user is aware of what to expect from this class of recipes. The URL subdirectory aids search engine bots in understanding the content of the page and when to display it in search results.
Best Practices For Creating A Website Taxonomy: Check Text Classification IAB Taxonomy
The Content Taxonomy has evolved over time to provide publishers with a consistent and easy way to organize their website content. For example, to differentiate “sports” vs. “news” vs. “wellness” material. IAB Tech Lab’s Content Taxonomy specification provides additional utility for minimizing the risk that content categorization signals could generate sensitive data points about things like race, politics, religion, or other personal characteristics that could result in discrimination.
Some frequent questions…
What this API receives and what your API provides (input/output)? Just pass the text that you want to categorize and you will get its IAB taxonomy. Simple as that!
What are the most common uses cases of this API? This API is intended to help those companies with a large amount of data that needs to be sorted by category. Thus, you will be able to gather text by grouping it by category. Besides, ideal for marketing agencies that want to extract data online and want to categorize it as well. Also, helpful to classify sentences or slogans, you will be given the exact categorization in IAB standards.
Are there any limitations with your plans?
Besides API call limitations per month:
Testing Plan: 5 requests per second.
Basic: 10 requests per second.
Pro: 30 requests per second.
Pro+: 60 requests per second.
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