Putting Your Blog in Order
By Desty on Oct 16, 2007 in Blogging -- Technical
Everyone, without exception, starts their blog at the beginning. They must, it’s the beginning of their blog!
When the blog is created, the writer has a niche he or she wants to compete in. Their topic is selected, the blog theme is selected, categories are created, and content starts to flow.
Categories
As time progresses, and the writer starts to expand their topic into further categories, the actual category list gets longer and longer. One day, the writer is creating a new article, and discovers that they have to select from 17 different categories!
While this is a headache for the writer, imagine what the reader thinks. The category list was intended to help the read access topics of interest. Too many categories, the reader is overwhelmed.
Suggestion: As the writer, you know what your topics are. Set those topics as categories, and fit everything into those categories. Even if you have over 100 articles (like Desty Online does), you can always go back and edit every article to add to the new categories. Once older, unused categories are emptied, you can delete the old categories. This will also help target your internal keywords; not only will the search engines like you, so will your readers.
This is on my to-do list for the weekend.
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Category is a thing, which every blogger has to deal. I tried to plan 6 main categories in the beginning, so I can add some more later, when I recognize the needs.
That’s exactly what I did. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it, just that now, looking back on about 5 active months, I need to do some cleaning up. Some catagories I haven’t used in some time.