Adding Categories
Categories help keep your posts organized and give your visitors another way of searching your content. This is a good thing!
Let’s say your blog/site will be about travel and holidays. You might therefore have categories such as:
Family Holidays
Cruising
Spa Holidays
Travel Arrangements
Working Holidays
Travel Accessories
Over time each of those Categories might be broken down into sub-categories e.g. Cruising might have the sub-categories:
- Caribbean Cruises
- Mediterranean Cruises
- Canal Cruises
and so on.
As I explain in the video below I like to get, at least, my main Categories in place before I start adding content to keep me focused.
I also think that naming Categories well can help for search engine optimization as Google etc. may well take the category name into consideration and don’t forget that category pages ( i.e. the page showing snippets of all your posts in a particular category) are indexed by the Search Engine too.
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Postscript: There is also an argument that your categories should reflect your keywords – which is kind of what I’ve done in the video above.
So the url of in the categorised post about a cruise to Turkey might be: domainname/category/mediterranean-cruises/my-turkish-cruise-adventure/ and that might give you a better ranking in Google.