Classifications of Blogs

The term taxonomy can be expressed as the technique or science of classification (Dictionary.com 2012). Blog-taxonomy would then mean the technique of classifying blogs based on their categories and helps to ensure the genre or the content of the blog is consistent. It also helps readers to find the most related information in convenience based on different topic, interest and understanding. Blog-taxonomy is the study of how to the classification or organization of your blog can increase the site’s traffic and repeat visitors significantly by targeting the two types of readers that are available on the internet which are the ‘humans’ and the ‘search engines’ (brainshrub 2006).

Margaret Simmons	John Saddington
Pamphleteering	Best of blog posts	Giveaways	Off Colour, Off Topic
Digest	Video, Audio Interviews	Community Powered	Big Resource Post
Popular Mechanic	Question & Answers	Contests & Competition	One Time Announcement
Gatewatcher	Incredible Headliner	Charity, Awareness Post	Humor
Diary	Dogmatic Perspective	Guest Post	Testimonials
Advertisement	Practical Advice	News Flash Boiler Plate	Research, Presentations, Infographics
News	List Post	Screen cast	Compare Contrast
Exhibition	Review Post	Video Blog Post	Long Form, Editorial, Journalism
	How to Blog Posts	Images

Pamphleteering	Groups of individual arguing a point or expressing a strong point of view
Digest	Guides and summaries to information you can access elsewhere
Popular Mechanic	How things works
Gatewatcher	Gatekeeper looks into media frequently, updating information on how it works
Diary	Personal lives
Advertisement	Promoting products through blogging
News	Updating people with  current news  or information
Exhibition	Formed by  craftspeople, artists, writers to share and showcase their work of art

 Margaret Simmons's Classification 

Best of blog posts	Content includes top posts in a category or a particular time limit
Video, Audio Interviews	Interviews with celebrities or a public figures that is interesting
Question & Answers	Providing information for questions and answers for the public
Incredible Headliner	Blog posts that grabs the attention of their readers with their headline
Dogmatic Perspective	Posts with a firm stand from the writer about issues
Practical Advice	Giving advice  in a particular field of your specialty
List Post	Posts that are listed out in point forms using bullets and ordered list
Review Post	Reviewing products or items of a particular genre based on interest
How to Blog Posts	Share information on ‘how-to’ do or work on something particular or in general
Giveaways	Blogs that offers gives-away
Community Powered	Blogs that communicate with the readers and decisions can be affected by the community’s opinions.
Contests & Competition	A Blog post that contains contest-related blog posts and it does not necessarily offer a prize.
Charity, Awareness Post	Post by request of others with topics that might not interest the blogger
Guest Post	Posts by different authors that are posted by well known bloggers or websites
News Flash Boiler Plate	Boilerplate news and hotplate items that updates news instantly
Screen cast	A mix of how-to and videos to share information
Video Blog Post	Blogs that heavily rely on videos to express
Images	Blogs that heavily rely on images to express
Off Colour, Off Topic	Content that is sometimes outside of the typical content focus
Big Resource Post	Links or information of resources to a finding / research
One Time Announcement	Events or an occasion or something that happened that is shared to the public
Humor	Jokes or contents that is humorous
Testimonials	Blogs covering products and reviews
Research, Presentations, Infographics	Blogs that provides good research and presentation-related blog posts with some credible sources
Compare Contrast	Comparing between products or an issue
Long Form, Editorial, Journalism	Editorial and journalism-related blog post in a long form, up to 1500-3000 words

John Saddington's Classification

As shown above we can see the comparison between the blog taxonomy or also known as blog classification by Simmons and John Saddington. Both authors have different approach towards the classification of blogs and form the table above, we could see that John’s technique of organizing the categories are more diverse and more detailed where the differences of each can be seen easily. Therefore, John Saddington’s technique of classification would be more helpful and more convenient especially when it comes to precision of categories.

Sources :

Brainshrub 2006, ‘Blog taxonomy in a nutshell. Theimportance of tags and categories’, Democratic Underground.com, retrieved on 1^st April 2012, from http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1657266

Dictionary.com 2012, ‘taxonomy’, Dictionary.com, retrieved on 1^st April 2012, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/taxonomy

Saddington, J 2011, ’25 blog posts that people love to click and read’, Tentblogger, retrieved on 1^st April 2012, from http://tentblogger.com/blog-post-types/