Blogger Forum - Forum - Categories in Blogger

Blogger Forum - Forum: "Categories in Blogger Hi, If you're interested in adding categories to your blog, then Freshblog has a great write up of different methods. The idea is to integrate del.icio.us tags onto your blog, and use those to organise your posts by category. You can see a couple of different implementations: AFL Player Spectator (nested flat listing) Vent (drop-down select box listing) One neat thing is that this allows your readers to pass tags between blogs, as well as have your blog pages extract tags out of inbound search queries. This means that when visitors come to your blog, you can automatically showcase your relevant, targetted posts. Review, how-to and discussion over at Freshblog. Cheers, -Thetan. firec Posted on: 2005/11/24 12:35 Just popping in Joined: 2005/11/24 From: Posts: 1 Re: Categories in Blogger I have another simple yet effective way to enable categories in your Blogger blog. It does not require tagging to external sites, and takes 5 minutes to set up. For step-by-step instructions, please see http://netcf2.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogging-categories-categories.html. Hope you like it. thetan Posted on: 2005/11/25 1:00 Just popping in Joined: 2005/8/9 From: Posts: 6 Re: Categories in Blogger This is a fairly straightforward approach to setting up categories in blogger, by getting the blogger search function to do the heavy lifting. The downside is the lack of integration with search engines like technorati and social bookmarking like del.icio.us. This will impact on visibility. Lastly, displaying the blogger search results as part of your navigation might turn off some readers. If you value simplicity but want to overcome some of these drawbacks (and happen to use Firefox), I highly recommend Johan at ecmanaut's extension to blogger. It's a great way to get categories into your blog - and out to potential readers! The methods, scripts and discussion around tagging blogs I mentioned above pertain just to displaying categories on your blog, and letting your readers use them to navigate. They don't directly address the question of how to tag the posts in the first place. Cheers, -Thetan. ecmanaut Posted on: 2005/11/28 7:58 Just popping in Joined: 2005/11/28 From: Posts: 5 Re: Categories in Blogger Or perhaps the extended version I made later on, which also adds some nifty publish ping notification links to the post page. gdewilde Posted on: 2005/11/28 11:59 Home away from home Joined: 2005/1/24 From: Posts: 515 Re: Categories in Blogger lol, I've spend an hour looking for it but I cant find the blog. I've seen an awesome food blog that was sorted brilliantly. She made a separate blogspot blog with the same template and created a post for each topic. Under the 'deserts' post she had a link to each desert on the original blog. She added a link back to 'deserts' from each posting under it. Of course it isn't cross site but it looked incredibly simple and worked fantastic. :) I think it's better as the way I've done it (by making seperate blogs). http://fototour.blogspot.com/ ecmanaut Posted on: 2005/11/28 12:19 Just popping in Joined: 2005/11/28 From: Posts: 5 Re: Categories in Blogger Yikes! Sounds like an administrative nightmare, but then I'm a very lazy person about such things; if I can't automate it, I don't do it. gdewilde Posted on: 2005/11/28 12:34 Home away from home Joined: 2005/1/24 From: Posts: 515 Re: Categories in Blogger She put a lot of work in the articles so adding 2 links isn't a lot of work I guess. I should also note that my multiple blog method resulted in getting lots of comment spam. People appear to think the blogs are deserted. Not a cool thought to put in anyones head. I've experimented with leaving the comment spam on the blog. Then got up to 180 following spammers per post. ---------------- http://therpg.blogspot.com (new) | http://fototour.blogspot.com | http://blog.360.yahoo.com/Factuurexpress | http://gaby.wordpress.com | http://my.opera.com/gabydewilde"