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When building a blog, it’s important to considered the most powerful online; The The Category: One Tag to Bind
start thinking about your categories Wordpress is to these solutions what The Them All
and tag structure ahead of writing time, to give Google is to the search engine world, and so
yourself an idea of the structure and focus of we’ll be using the WP terms for the two main Think of categories in terms of a top-level
the site, rather than doing it as you go along, semantic categories. navigation menu. Besides the usual “home”,
as you write and add to your content. “about” and “contact” items, you want like-
So, sure, let’s say your web log (what minded afficianados of your subject to find
Sure, a blog can be a journey of self- your online diary software was initially called what they also consider hot, right?
discovery, a diary of your day to day musings before it became onlionized as a “blog”) will
organically chronicling your nightly ‘gasms. be about sexy people in boots - but isn’t that Sexy people in boots. What else do you
But if you’re planning to monetize your kinks so general? like? Think think... Nude People in Boots?
at all, you can get a step ahead of yourself Okay! Then what? Well, each of these could
(and potential competition) and target your Before you begin realizing, as you will have thematic angles. Such as thigh-high
audience by defining them now rather than writing and growing your blog, that this world latex boots? Or better yet, shiny boots (latex,
later, when somebody else might see where you love has so many components within leather, whatever material)? Yes yes! Then
you’re going with this and get there before you it that it changes - or rather, crystalizes - what? Well, you always did hanker for those
do. your perception of it, thus the shape of its calf-high chunky combat boots. With the
presentation to the global online community, military attire to go with them, as well as their
This will not only help you with future long- start examining them now by defining them, nudier, even sexier naked alternative. Or how
term search engine validity and optimization to yourself, and thus to that greater audience, about soft leather hiking boots? Yes! And very
of said blog, but also support your own ideas in terms of their general categories and then specifically L.L. Bean boots (I swear, though I
and the actual formation of what your site is specific sub-categories. can’t right now confirm it, I know in my heart
and/or will be “about”. there MUST be an L.L. Bean hiking boot
Or, in other words, tags. fetish)!
A little sidenote here, to say that, though
there are many blogging and CMS (Content At any rate, broader (no this is not
Management Software) platforms, there intended to be sexist) segments we will term
is only one which is the most popular and “Categories”, and the narrower hunks (ditto)
we will name “Tags”.
Optimize Search Engine Lust:
Pre-Tagging Your Blog For The
Long Term
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