This week we'll discuss how you can optimize the categories and tags you assign to your posts in order to get more blog traffic. Depending on your blogging platform the specifics will vary but ultimately the concept is the same; tags and categories are important for blog organization and help increase your traffic.
This tip is courtesy of Easton Ellsworth, author of BusinessBlogWire and Editor for Know More Media.
The smarter your categories and tags, the greater your blog traffic.
Why?
1. Search engines love organization. Google ... Yahoo! ... MSN ... all the rest ... they all have something in common. They love cleanliness. Order. Organization. And smart categories and tags help them understand and index your blog more effectively than almost anything else. Which means you'll get more search traffic.
2. Humans (generally) love organization. Even the messiest person usually has some kind of system to their disarray. In general, your blog visitors want to be able to figure out instantly what other articles you have that they might enjoy. Smart categories and tags mean that you'll have a fresh assortment of useful, related links to offer your hungry blog reader. Which means you'll get more page views per visit.
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