February 5, 2012

Should I Use Categories In My Blog Posts?

Question: I want to ask you how to display post by categories? For example in your blog, when I click a category in your blog, example I click ‘Affiliate Marketing’ then it will display all post connected with affiliate marketing. How do I do that?

Whenever I create a new blog post I always assign categories to each post. For example, for this post I’ll use the following categories.

Categories
Blogging
WordPress

It’s simple to do in WordPress, just look on the page when you write a post, below the space where you put your post copy in. Look for categories, and simply create a new one, or use an existing one you’ve used before.

This is great, to your point, because now someone can come to this blog and click on “blogging” as a category and see every post Ask the Blogger has ever done with that category selected. Tagging is similar to this.

  • http://www.trishalyn.com TrishaLyn

    A related question… Do tags or categories ever help SEO?

  • http://www.madmouse.com/blog/ squeaky

    I believe that using categories will also can help you get better search engine ranking results, if you use targeted keywords for category names. Also providing that you allow access to the search engines in your robots.txt file or plugin.

  • http://jasonjumat.com Jason @ I need lots of money now

    Categories actually do two things. It tells real people what your post or article is about – and also bots (specifically search engine bots) what your article is about. This way you rank good in the serps, also providing you tag your article(s) with targeted keywords.
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