If you’re using Blogger / Blogspot for your blog, there is one little annoying feature – or lack of – the creators disregarded Categories.

Categories are vital especially if you’re writing regular posts. Once you’ve got quite some posts on your Blogger blog, your guests will wander away paging through lots of blog posts unless they can click on Classes to assist them notice blog posts on the specific topic they are looking for.

Of course, you’ll be able to embody a Search box on your Blogger blog, that suggests that guests can search by any keyword and hopefully find what they are trying for. However Classes provide something instantly clickable, and additionally act as a mini-contents box – an indicator for visitors as to the content, topics and scope of your blog.

There is some methods to add Classes to Blogger – usually involving advanced technical skills, together with adding to/editing your HTML code, using Digg and links, etc – you’ll search on-line for these, if you want to and you’re feeling technically competent.

However a easy methodology, which can be done by anyone, without desperate to edit HTML, is by using your Blogger ‘Labels’ during a bound way (described below).

Step 1: Before you write another blog post, you need to think about approximately 5-ten major/parent Categories, that would enlighten guests that main topics your blog covers. You’ll use these when setting up/editing your ‘Labels’ for each post.

Step two: When you are writing a post, there is a very little box to the underside right of your blog editing box, known as ‘Labels’. These act like tags/keywords for every post. Build sure you are doing embrace approximately five relevant Labels for every post. However conjointly bear in mind to incorporate a minimum of 1 of the main/parent Category Labels, as described above.

Step three: You can founded your blog layout to include Labels on the sidebar. You do this by clicking on ‘Customise’, ‘Layout’, ‘Page Elements’, ‘Add a Gadget’. Choose to add ‘Labels’. When it comes to editing your ‘Labels’ to appear on your blog sidebar, opt for ‘Selected Labels’ and then ‘Edit’. When you edit them, only tick those that are important main parent Categories/Labels to indicate (approximately 5-10), and untick all the less necessary child Categories/Labels.

Step 4: To indicate to blog visitors that these Labels are ‘Classes’, modification the title of the Labels box in the sidebar to one thing like “Classes” or “View Posts By Subject”. This suggests that guests will see approximately 5 – 10 Labels showing in the sidebar of the blog, which seem to them to be Categories, and that work simply like Categories after they click on them.

Step five: Every time you write another blog post, merely keep in mind to incorporate one in all your main Labels/parent Classes united of the blog post’s Labels. This will guarantee that this post shows up when vsiitors click on that acceptable Label/Category within the sidebar.

There you have got it. Blogger Classes while not going to any or all the hassle of editing your HTML code!

Kathryn Wilson
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