When we started this category trauma series, I asked: Who thinks these are effective post categories? The categories included “I’ve Been Thinking”, “Some Blog Stuff”, “More Blog Stuff”, “My Thoughts”, “About My Car”, “Dreams and Wishes”, and “Left Over Junk”.
Yesterday’s post looked at some of your suggestions and answers to why these were ineffective post categories and the answer boiled down to:
- The categories need to define and represent the content within the blog specifically.
- The category titles need to be search terms and keywords.
In my Thursday post, I’ll talk about how to change and fix those category names on your WordPress blog, but let’s change the names of the example categories to something better suited to that blog’s content.
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