Comments on: Keeping categories simple to keep readers happy

By: 简化分类，使读者们高兴 : 先驱博客 - The Blog Herald China

简化分类，使读者们高兴 : 先驱博客 - The Blog Herald China — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:57:24 +0000

By: Counterargument to the Importance of Categories in Blogs | I'd Rather Be Writing

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:08:29 +0000

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By: Gary King

Gary King — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:26:17 +0000

Dave, “general” is definitely better than “uncategorized”, too :)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:09:04 +0000

I think that keeping it close to ten (like your list) is important. Make sure you have a general that can be used as a catch all.

By: Debby

Debby — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:31:28 +0000

Interesting perspecitive on categorizing blogs.

By: Brian Carnell

Brian Carnell — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:36:06 +0000

Couldn’t disagree more. The more you drill down and get granular with categories, the more useful they are for many readers (and definitely helps with the search engine traffic).

By: Blogging: Keeping categories simple to keep readers happy | King Gary

Blogging: Keeping categories simple to keep readers happy | King Gary — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:34:21 +0000

[...] made a new post over at Blog Herald entitled “Keeping categories simple to keep readers happy“. I talk about what’s a great way to organize your blog’s categories, and I also [...]

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:14:13 +0000

I must say that tagging information at a micro level has brought some readers to my blog. For example, instead of tagging a post simply Music I may tag it Beastie Boys. This tag or category then gets picked by Technorati and maybe some other key word type services or sites. Where the post may have been lost in the sea of Music tags it has a chance to be noticed in the Lake of Beastie Boy tags. I do agree with you on ease of use (for the blogger and reader) with the fewer and more collective categories though. This may be an upcoming project to wrangle in my out of control categories.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:10:11 +0000

Don’t I know this! I had stupid categories started up, and it’s come back to haunt me.

I should really spend a weekend cleaning it all up!