While structuring your content is a must for the modern web, you can go too far or even add structure to the wrong things. You want to break up your content into the smallest pieces possible but within reason. You can always distill your content down, but it’s possible to take it to absurd levels. How do you know if you’ve done this?

Different organizations have different thresholds of what counts as “overstructure.” For example, some organizations want a separate field for the year but others find the extra structure pointless. What follows are some examples of things you’ll see if your content model doesn’t align with your goals and capabilities.