New Categories: Blogging, Search and Internet
After blogging for a while I noticed that I write rather often about certain topics that were not reflected in my categories. Moreover as time went by I and my blog evolved.
For instance when starting SEO 2.0 initially I did not expect to write a lot about Google or about search in general. After all
I planned to establish a new kind of SEO that does not have to rely on search engines.
Also I realized that I can not blog about search, design and usability without writing about blogging itself.
Thus I decided to add these new categories: blogging along with another one that matters – search.
Blogging, see above for explanation
Search – The Google dominance is not as complete as you might think, and as an SEO I know what’s going on here.
I’m always on the look out for alternative search engines. I’m a big fan of DuckDuckGo and Yandex.com for example.
Internet – I often cover issues relevant for everybody out there or rather the Web as a whole. Thus I needed an “Internet” category.
My WordPress theme had a very unique way of displaying categories but now with new ones added it looks quite cluttered.
Don’t you think I should drop some redundant categories? These seem to be largely irrelevant to me, but I’m not sure:
Bullshit – sounds great to scare off the business people, but basically it’s mostly the same as the “fun” cat don’t you think? On the other hand I often like to cover some nonsense other people spread.
Google – I did not expect to cover the search giant. I hardly mention Google. Why? Google sends me just a bunch of visitors.
At the same time social media do send me a lot more each time I publish something. Why should Google play such a prominent role?
SEO – with SEO 2.0 as a category, having two search engine optimization categories might seem like too much.
I am not sure. Of course most SEO is not SEO 2.0 but does this categorization add real value for you, the users?
whatever – well, this is a non-category from the start. WordPress forced you to use a default category in older versions but now does not anymore as far as I can see
I know that many of you are experienced bloggers, designers and other experts, so what do you think?
Do you still rely on categories? Should I switch to tags anyway? SEO 2.0 is about communication, so please tell me.
Last updated: May 11th, 2018
It all still fits on the header so its not ‘THAT’ cluttered
Well Tad, as thanks for calling my a goddess in your most recent post, here is a mini simplicity review for you ;-)
I can see a way you can logically cut your categories down to 10, while still allowing for your new topics.
1. Usability
2. Design
3. Money
Mmm… for some reason the rest of my comment was cut off. Oh well, to continue:
3. Money (include John Chow posts).
4. CSS
5. Whatever (include Germany posts)
6. StumbleUpon
7. Web 2.0 (include Social media)
8. WordPress
9. SEO 2.0 (include Whitehat and Definitions)
10. SEO (include Search, Google)
To reorganize your categories display to show these 10 categories only, I’d rearrange it so that only the two middle rows are filled. This would leave a row of whitespace on the top and bottom.
Yeah, strange. I wondered if you want me to dump those three. Skellie wants me to drop “usability and design”??? ;-)
Tad, you just need to adjust the cats id in the css… just take out margin-top: 20px; under #cats, I think it’s around line #53. And that should adjust it. let me know, if it doesn’t work.
USA what?
Who cares about usability?
;)
I’ve added a few categories from the time I started my blog. I started with 5 or 6 broad categories and wound up adding a few specific ones.
Thanks for the mention of my StumbleUpon profile (and for stumbling a bunch of my stuff).