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By: Brad Shorr

Brad Shorr — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:06:40 +0000

Ricardo, Thanks for adding your wisdom to the comments: all this advice is sure to help new bloggers. It’s all far more tricky than meets the eye.

By: Ricardo Bueno

Ricardo Bueno — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:59:18 +0000

I think that you’ve outlined some excellent rules for setting categories and I most certainly agree that the earlier on you set them, the better! And changing them at a later date is most certainly problematic!

In my opinion, don’t have more than 7-10 categories. The fewer the better because if you have too many, well, it’s just plain cluttered and that’s never a good thing.

I think it’s ok to assign things to multiple categories but obviously I have a preference for avoiding this if possible.

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Footprints and Blogging — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:33:23 +0000

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By: Brad Shorr

Brad Shorr — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:10:47 +0000

Robert, You’d have to have a pretty good reason to go back and re-categorize. One reason I started doing “best of” posts was to group important posts … some folks do what is known as a “squeeze page,” – a similar concept that Darren Rowse sometimes blogs about.

Fred, I think your tag cloud is a good browsing feature, especially if you start focusing on perhaps a dozen or so common search terms. A tag cloud is often a good solution to a murky category scheme … unfortunately I messed up my tagging early on, so that doesn’t work so well for me, either.

By: Fred H Schlegel

Fred H Schlegel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:04:18 +0000

Uh Oh. I hit you with a pet peeve square in the face. ‘Ribbiting Relationships’ not a highly searched term? Been thinking about this as my thoughts about what I am doing have been becoming more focused over the past year. Thanks for pointing out the problems of simply editing towards something more staid and true – I see work ahead….