A lot of people like to sift through a lot of information to get to the information they want. Unfortunately, very few of the people who visit blogs are the type of people that like to do that. You have to make sure that the information on your blog is organized and easy to find. Never make the assumption that your information is so interesting that people will willingly wade through information that they don’t care about to find information they do care about. You have to be proactive when it comes to organizing your blog categories effectively.

Different things work for different people, but, if you are trying to make money online, you have to keep a few important points in mind. I was visiting a blog that had an extremely unorganized list of categories. Here is how the site I visited listed their categories.

Now I don’t know about you, but there is no way that I’m searching through this list to find anything! Although it is clear that this blog owner is a prolific writer, this blog category list is just entirely too large. Everything that you do has to be thought of from the perspective of your blog readers. Each post you write should not only link into the purpose of your blog, it should also allow your readers to be able to find old pages. Each of those posts should be categorized so that they are easy to find. Another point to remember is that a huge list of categories takes up a lot of space. That’s space that you could be using to monetize your blog.

One of the key things to remember is that most people need some sort of order and reason in their lives. When they look at things, they want to be able to understand them and figure them out with ease. Doing that with a list of categories like the one above is almost impossible. Just think about it. How is the word ‘identity’ as listed in my screenshot above tell you what the posts are about. Your readers aren’t trying to play click-and-guess, they are trying to find precise, quality information.

So here is how you can whittle your list down to a manageable size and attract your readers to your past post. Sit down and write the purpose of your blog in one to two sentences. Don’t think that your blog can be defined by one or two sentences? Well think again! It doesn’t matter what your blog is about, it can be defined in one to two sentences. After you determine what your blog is about, think about short phrases & words that relate to what your blog is about. For instance, if your blog is about showing beginners how to get started cooking, some words & phrases that are relevant would be:

• Spices

• Cooking Wines

• Cooking Oils

• Beginner Recipes

• Advanced Recipes

As you can see, the categories become very clear once you identify the purpose of your blog. These categories can then be used to help you eliminate clutter in your categories and make clicking on your categories appealing to your site visitors.

So what do you do now?

Take some time and organize your blog categories and make them appealing to your site visitors.

Posted By Kila Morton

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