Yes, organizing your blog certainly can be time consuming, but it will also make your blog easier to negotiate when your visitors come to see what you have been writing about.
Easier To Read
If you look at anyone who is out there blogging in the internet marketing business at the moment, who does even a half decent job, you will notice that they split it up into different sections, all headed in a certain way. For example, if their marketing blog is about internet marketing, they might have a section on traffic generation, another section on building a good website, another on attracting visitors, another on sales and marketing, and so on.
By doing this they can ensure that anyone visiting their internet marketing blog will immediately be able to go to the section they are most interested in, without having to worry about searching through loads of entries which they may have no interest in at all.
Breaking Up Your Blog
Breaking your blog up into sections also makes it easier to write a more rounded blog. Take the internet marketing example for instance. If you didn’t have those sections you might find you tend to write about traffic generation far more than you write about building a good website. Sales and marketing may hardly get a look in at all.
Whatever subject you write about, it’s probably fair to say that you will want to bring in visitors and generate sales for your internet marketing business. If this is the case then having a well rounded blog which appeals to everyone in that specific niche will help increase your sales and encourage more repeat visitors to interact with your internet marketing business.
So make the most of expanding your blog and look for ways to add new but relevant categories from time to time as well. You will benefit from it if you do.
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Hi Sean,
I like this idea. I think it’s important to make your blog as user friendly as possible by making it easy for them to access the information they want. I want my visitors to enjoy their experience so that they’ll return.
Also using categories or popular posts listings helps readers get to what they want instead of wading through a lot of material.
Writing in scannable short paragraphs also aids this method
Sean
Excellent advice. I think I have sorted my categories out pretty well but intend to get some feedback and see if there is any improvements I can make
Hello Sean,
Great concept. Never occurred to me to break up my blog. Can see how it would become user friendly to break it up into different sections.
Would also be great for Google to understand which are your blog is targeting? I am going to have to think about how hard its going to be to break up my blog!!! Will need to re-think how my blog looks.
Cheers
Lisa
Hi Sean
This is very good advice. I was just thinking about my blog categories as since I started this competition and all the information I have read, I have been considering changing them considerably.
I would think that this kind of organising on a blog is good to do in the planning stages before building your blog however, one of the great things about blogs are that they are versatile and easy to do a ‘home improvement” on. Onward to the re planning stage for me. Thankyou.
Breaking up your blog is hard to do! That certainly is an understatement if you are trying to take an existing blog that just grew and organize it in new sections. The ideal approach of course is to plan out the sections of your blog before you start to write anything. Advance planning certainly can reduce the pain you’ll feel in the future when you realize you have to create section to make your blog more user-friendly and useful.
“Breaking up your blog is hard to do” …. oh really!!!!
But its a good point! A good way to learn how to space both your text and various content is to review some blogs you like, and see what is it about them that attracts you – one thing I bet is the ease with which you can scan and find the good points easily. And, that they are are in topic sections – which allows you to choose what and when to read at your leisure.
I have become very good at designing web pages and when I started to blog I was a little concerned about not having the top navigation bar. Now that I am using categories effectively, I am really happy with the look and think it is a lot neater and easier to use…..not going back!