Searching This Way and That Way and All the Way to Sunday!

Posted by on March 5, 2010 10 Comments

Yes, it is time for another 2010 Blog Improvement Project Task.  This week it’s all about tags and organization. 

The task this week is to improve the way the posts on your blog are organized by ensuring that all your categories and tags (wordpress) or labels (blogger) are meaningful. It is important that your posts are placed into groups with similar themes, so that anyone browsing your blog can quickly find the information they are looking for. If they like a certain kind of post then it can also help them to find similar ones.

This is a long-term project for me.  I recently had my blog redone, so I have a menu bar at the top of the page where readers can search my reviews by author and title.  It is a work in progress, though, so bear with me!  I still need to go back to my older posts and tag everything correctly.  I’m also considering a tag for genre, but I’m not sure about that one yet!  I’d also like to have my reviews searchable by my star rating. 

Your categories/labels should be displayed on your sidebar and act like short guide to your blog – allowing readers to quickly visualise the contents of your site.

I’m not sure I want to do this.  I don’t really want to clutter up my sidebars more than I have to, so I am hoping that by keeping all this information searchable in the menu bar that it will be sufficient for readers to find what they are looking for.  What do you think?  Would you prefer sidebar links also?

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  1. Jenny says:
    March 5, 2010 at 3:07 am

    I completely agree with you about posting the labels. Plus, the labels are at the bottom of the post too so if your post something that has a related label I could always click on it there too.

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  2. Jennifer (Crazy-for- says:
    March 5, 2010 at 3:14 am

    Yeah, my redesign was more about streamlining things and de-cluttering…wish I could do that in my house! LOL I just don't want my blog to start looking messy again…

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  3. Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books) says:
    March 5, 2010 at 3:14 am

    Yeah, my redesign was more about streamlining things and de-cluttering…wish I could do that in my house! LOL I just don't want my blog to start looking messy again…

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  4. Michelle (Red Headed says:
    March 5, 2010 at 3:56 am

    I haven't done much labeling. Mine are just located in the Blog Archive. I am in the works of redoing my blog so I haven't decided what to do next with that.

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  5. Michelle (Red Headed Book Child) says:
    March 5, 2010 at 3:56 am

    I haven't done much labeling. Mine are just located in the Blog Archive. I am in the works of redoing my blog so I haven't decided what to do next with that.

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  6. Jennifer (Crazy-for- says:
    March 5, 2010 at 3:59 am

    Oooh, Michelle! I can't wait to see how you redo your blog!!

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  7. Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books) says:
    March 5, 2010 at 3:59 am

    Oooh, Michelle! I can't wait to see how you redo your blog!!

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  8. April (BooksandWine) says:
    March 6, 2010 at 1:00 am

    There is a way where you can do drop down labels. I forget how, but I do know google has the answer, most likely!

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  9. Jennifer (Crazy-for- says:
    March 6, 2010 at 1:13 am

    Google has the answer to everything! LOL ;)

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  10. Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books) says:
    March 6, 2010 at 1:13 am

    Google has the answer to everything! LOL ;)

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