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January 7, 2011 By 10 Comments

How To Use Categories Effectively On Your Blog

Yesterday I shared some tips on the Diverse Solutions blog for how to use blog categories more effectively. Today, I thought I’d share a little video outlining my process (cuz you know, some people are visual learners):

Can’t see the video? Click here.

Basically, we can break it down into three steps:

  1. Define your topic/niche,
  2. Brainstorm your category titles,
  3. Brainstorm post titles each of your categories.

Over To You:

How many categories do you currently have on your blog? Could you use these steps to do a little house-cleaning?

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About Ricardo Bueno

I specialize in Marketing & Technology for the Real Estate Industry and I work for Diverse Solutions - the trusted source for lead generating IDX. I author Real Estate Blog Topics - a premium newsletter that helps real estate agents build a better real estate blog!

  • SmartAboutThings

    I always wondered about how exactly the categories should be displayed :) Is that you in the video?

    • http://www.ricardobueno.com Ricardo Bueno

      It's not quite a technical video on how to set up your categories. More of a brainstorm for how to map out your blog topics and get organized.

      • SmartAboutThings

        Nonetheless, is that you? :)

  • kirstenwright

    Great video – a little long (most people don't have huge attention spans) but it was really well organized and put together. :)

    • http://www.ricardobueno.com Ricardo Bueno

      Well I thank you for sitting through it, heh :-)

      You're right though, definitely want to keep it under a minute. I'm also one of those folks with a short attention span.

      Thanks for the comment Kirsten and look forward to seeing more in your video blog series!

    • http://www.streamlinedrealty.com Jeffry Evans

      It’s amazing how short folks’ attention spans are these days. I think youtube and other internet spots have greatly contributed to this “shortening”. I find myself in a similar situation.

  • http://twitter.com/AdamKingStudio Adam King

    Killer vid man. You gotta do more.

    Oh yeah. Also, you showed me a few things I didn't know as well!

    • http://www.ricardobueno.com Ricardo Bueno

      Heh, I picked up the whiteboard just for that video when in fact I could have filmed it the way you filmed yours.

      But yes, I want to do more. Just gotta get comfortable and outline some topics.

  • http://www.alspaulding.com AL Spaulding

    I have a bit of a clutter going on with my categories and am about to clean house. Thanks for the tips Ricardo

    • http://www.ricardobueno.com Ricardo Bueno

      I once transferred a site from Blogspot to WordPress… They had a whopping 235+ categories (true story).
      Less is more. The neater the better.

      Happy organizing AL!