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There have been quite a few instances in the past months where I’ve had to explain the difference between a category and a tag to several people. I thought I’d share my definition and explanation of categories and tags to see if anyone else has a better definition.

Here are my definitions:
1) Tags are metadata (keywords?) for content. They describe the content itself and useful when searching a site.

2) Categories are used for navigation and represent different sections of a site where similar content is grouped. In most cases, categories are the sites navigation. Categories also had a hierarchy to a site. Even the word category can be used to describe categories. They categorize.

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