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:
- Define your topic/niche,
- Brainstorm your category titles,
- 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?
SmartAboutThings says
I always wondered about how exactly the categories should be displayed 🙂 Is that you in the video?
Ricardo Bueno says
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 says
Nonetheless, is that you? 🙂
kirstenwright says
Great video – a little long (most people don't have huge attention spans) but it was really well organized and put together. 🙂
Ricardo Bueno says
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!
Jeffry Evans says
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.
Adam King says
Killer vid man. You gotta do more.
Oh yeah. Also, you showed me a few things I didn't know as well!
Ricardo Bueno says
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.
AL Spaulding says
I have a bit of a clutter going on with my categories and am about to clean house. Thanks for the tips Ricardo
Ricardo Bueno says
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!