I share the mistakes that will prevent me from making money.
I have been making the following mistakes when blogging. I would like to share them with you.
Selecting all categories
I thought that by selecting all categories my chances of being found by google were higher. I didn’t realise the importance of having content related to my category increased my chances of actually being found by search engines.
Creating categories to attract visitors
I was creating a “special category” for special articles that din’t justify the creation of a new category because I was not going to write many articles of that category.
Using irrelevant categories
I was creating categories that were irrelevant for my blog. For example:
My blog is about entrepreneurship, internet marketing strategies and strategies to make money online. I created a category called “beauty and health” because I was including some examples of how the beauty and health industry use internet marketing strategies. The “beauty and health” category was completely irrelevant.
Creating categories twice
I was creating more than two categories just to be found by Search Engines under different names. For example: I had a category named “make money online” and another one called “earn money online”. I have found that for this purpose it is better to use tags.
My recommendations:
Keep it simple
Select relevant categories
Do not repeat categories
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Your categories will be a key strategy for your blog to succeed.
Remember that you will have readers that will be interested in very specific topics. If you have those articles classified in the right category your chances are that your visitors will read more and more of them.
You will earn a reader for life if he/she finds your articles in the right category. You will become a specialist in that area for him/her.
For example:
You were in google searching for “blogging tips”. I have more than 5 articles in this blog about blogging tips but you will not get to read them if you do not find them in the right category.
But if you get to read this and you find it interesting my chances are you will get to read the other 5 as well.
Good luck!
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Why is it important to use categories in an effective manner?
It will make your life easier because it is much easier to administer your content and classify your articles.
If your content is included in the right category you have more chances to be found by search engines such as google. They search for the relevance of the content to the keywords searched.
If they are correctly classified your visitors will find it easier to find the topics they are interested in.
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