Labels and Categories

One of the things that is important for bloggers to realize is that you must make it easy for your readers to find back posts that are of interest to them. One way to do this is of course through the ever present Archives. However, if you think about it Archives are virtually useless unless your reader has been a long time reader and can associate the post he/she is looking for with a certain timespan.

However if your blog has a lot of information to yield on certain topics, after reader a particularly good post your reader might want to find out more about that certain topic and search for previous posts about it. This is where categories are useful.

By using categories you allow your readers to search your blog topically, pointing them to specific posts of interest.

Labels and categories of course go hand in hand. Make sure you choose relevant and descriptive labels so that your categories will yield good results. It might not help your SEO but it will help retain your readers.

By Sparky in Basics, Blogs, Content, Tips

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