Feed foundations / INDEPENDENT FIELD GUIDE

Website Tags Feed

Website-level labels summarize a publication or domain. Keep those broad judgments separate from the topics of individual URLs.

A site is more than a single page.

The core idea

A domain can publish tutorials, announcements, commentary, and support material. Labeling the entire site from one article can hide that variety. Build a site record for general scope and preserve page-level records for the specific evidence a reader will encounter. Explain which level each classification describes.

A workable starting pattern

Choose representative pages from different sections, record the basis for a site-level description, and leave room for mixed or uncertain scope. When a site changes focus, review the broad description without rewriting the historical subject of every article it once published.

AN EXAMPLE TO THINK THROUGH

A developer publication may be broadly about software while one section covers podcast tooling. Classify the section or its articles specifically instead of presenting the whole domain as a podcast directory.

What this page does—and does not—offer

TagsFeed does not crawl or score websites. This topic explains an editorial approach to describing sites and their published pages.