Categorizing
your posts in Blogger is not as difficult as you may think. This is a feature
that often goes overlooked and can really help organize your posts for easy
browsing. In Blogger, categories are called “labels”. Whenever you create a
post, you have the option of adding labels to help categorize the content.
Your
previously used labels will appear below the label box for quick access as
well. The labels appear at the bottom of your posts and are linked to a search
label page in Blogger. As shown in the image above, if you click on one of
these categorized links, you will be directed to a page on your blog that shows
all posts with that particular label attached.
How do I add a link to category
pages in menu?
Before adding
a link to your navigation menu, you’ll need to get the link! Linking to any
label page is easy and can be done in two ways. The first would be to simply
right-click on one of your post labels at the bottom of your published post and
select the option to copy the link.
The other is
to manually type it out. The format is simply your blog URL, followed by
/search/label/your label, where “your label” is the selected label, such as
“Tech News” example below;
would display
all posts with the label “TechNews”. The label in the URL needs to be
spelled EXACTLY the same way as you
have typed it into the labels section of you post.
To add this
link to your menu bar, you would just head over to your layout section to add it as an external link on the
Pages widget as shown below;
Labels are Categories
The thing to
remember is that labels ARE categories in blogger. They should not be used as a
way to include keywords in your posts for search rankings. Many bloggers are
confused about this and stuff dozens of keywords into the label section instead
of properly categorizing their posts. Doing this might actually have a negative
effect on your search engine rankings, and also leads to a cluttered blog and
confusing categorization method. For example, if a reader clicked on one of
your keywords at the bottom of your post in hopes of reading more posts related
to that topic, they might only be presented with that one single post, or other
posts that have little to do with the label. (The same can be said for
WordPress’s “Tags” section).
In summary,
to use post labels is an excellent way to categorize your blog posts and allow
readers to browse pages related to a single topic. If you’ve been using the
labels section improperly, I suggest that you stop now and re-think your
strategies uhun!!
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