What should be the general criteria to group together blog posts/articles?

I have just two ideas in my mind:

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> One - To group by date of publishing.
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> Two - To group by category.
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On what type of blogs can we apply the above two groupings?

Also, is it sufficient to add a category, say *Featured Articles*, in terms of classification, when we analyze that certain blog articles are getting more hits?