Comments on: Blogging about Blogging: SEO

By: Serena

Serena — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:59:31 +0000

About how many categories is too many? And I have some subcategories, are those OK, or should I change those to tags as well?

By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:37:30 +0000

You’re okay in terms of duplicate content because your URLs are based on dates. On WordPress you can change categories and tags around however you’d like. The best way to do it is to go into the category menu and access all of the posts in each category. Then you can edit all of the posts on the same screen through bulk actions and move them from a category to a tag. When you’ve emptied a category, you can delete it and reorganize that way.

By: Serena

Serena — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:20:10 +0000

Wow, this is helpful. My problem is that when I moved from Blogger to WordPress my labels were turned into categories. If you have any advice about remedying this, I’d be happy to hear it.

By: Amused

Amused — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:22:43 +0000

SEO is very confusing to me so I am slowly learning more. This was some very useful and easy to handle tips!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sun, 29 May 2011 14:28:52 +0000

The best way is to get them to take down the content. Usually an email works. It’s illegal for them to copy from you. What you can do for the ones you may not find ASAP is put a link to your blog in your feed stating the original source – at least then you’re getting something back. WordPress has a plugin that does this really well called RSS footer.

By: Jodie

Jodie — Sun, 29 May 2011 10:51:16 +0000

We’re just starting to look into all this for my works new website and it’s eye opening. Looking around at all the cheat tips sites out there it seems one of the things people don’t seem to want to get in the corporate world is your first tip, that writing relevant content that includes appropriate keywords will always bring you happier, more relevant readers.

By: bermudaonion (Kathy)

bermudaonion (Kathy) — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:31:16 +0000

I’m still not sure I totally understand it all. What can we do when someone scrapes our sites?

By: Meghan

Meghan — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:10:18 +0000

In WordPress categories are a higher level of classification than tags, at least the way I use them. Categories are things like reviews, while tags will be things like fiction or history. I think on Blogger you only have labels which in your case are not used in your URL.

By: Pam (@iwriteinbooks)

Pam (@iwriteinbooks) — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:07:47 +0000

Oh, wow, the duplicate content bit is really interesting. I hadn’t thougt about that happening from the same site. Thanks!

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:06:16 +0000

This is great! I have a feeling my site has horrible SEO (I can’t even get posts to show using the site-specific search engine sometimes), but whenever I’ve tried to learn more about it, I just get confused. This seems pretty easy, though.

One question: what’s the difference between tags and categories?