Comments on: Don’t Ask Me For Backlinks. You Can Go Plug Yourself! – Learn How To Increase Backlinks By Using Your Own Web Sites and Blogs

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:36:46 +0000

I don't make a xerox copy of my water bill and put the original and the duplicate in two separate folders in my filing cabinet. With that said, I only assign only ONE category for my post. From there, once again... I will assign THREE to FIVE tags that act as SECOND LEVEL keyword phrases to help and aid the user and the search engine. See Example:

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:27:14 +0000

Is there any problem in assigning a single post to multiple categories? I mean what it can be? We have already plugins to tell Bots not to index those pages, so there will be no Duplicate Content issues and for readers, I think it is pretty much convenient to have a single post in multiple categories if it fall in. Like I have two categories Gadgets / Hardware launches and How to / Tutorial then if I am writing about a fix of that gadget or hardware, then it should come in both the categories. Check out Ashfame's last blog post..Picreflect create reflection of images

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:14:22 +0000

Hi Ashfame,

Here is my advice regarding WordPress Categories and WordPress Tags.

Consider the purpose of a filing cabinet in your office or home. For me I have a filing cabinet that contains our health and medical records, records and receipts of various utility bills paid, receipts and user manuals of products we have purchased, etc. For every item filed away in my filing cabinet, there is a section for it. A few of the main sections in filing cabinet are labeled as: Bills and Medical.

These two folders in my cabinet labeled as “Bills” and “Medical” could also be considered as WordPress categories.

Inside my “Bills” folder, I have sections: Auto Insurance Bills, Auto Loan Bills, Cellphone Bills, Credit Card Bills, etc… These sections within my “Bills” folder could also be considered as WordPress tags.

My advice to you would be to maintain your blog just like you would maintain your office or home filing cabinet. Assign one post ONE category and then compliment that with THREE to FIVE tags so that you make it easy for people as well as search engines to find your articles.

Another way of looking at this is to consider how music is categorized. Typically you have categorizes such as Classical, Jazz, Rock & Roll. When you browse the Rock & Roll category you can then narrow your search by looking up: Pink Floyd, The Doors, Boston, etc…

Organizing your article content into a category / tag system is just the same as how music is organized or how you organize your important things that you put into your filing cabinet.

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:58:24 +0000

Hey Garry! I know they are pretty well organized but I often tagged things in multiple categories and some of the categories are rarely used. I wanted to have categories in the sense which visitors can used to browse the site easily. So I wanted to categorize all of my previous posts. I have read a article on Problogger from which I got some clue but I would also like to hear your suggestion in this regard. Check out Ashfame's last blog post..Picreflect create reflection of images

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:17:28 +0000

Hi Ashfame,

What is wrong with your categories? They seem fine to me. You have blogging, hackking, hardward, How To / Tutorials, Internet Links, Programming, Reviews, Software, Tech Humour, Tech Myths, Etc… this all seem fine to me.

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:47:27 +0000

Thanks for such great articles. I have been reading them for 35minutes now. Also can you suggest how should I categorize my blog as I am thinking of making changes to category and tags in my older posts because I was not very good at things at that time. Check out Ashfame's last blog post..Picreflect create reflection of images

By: shane at making money blogging

shane at making money blogging — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:56:51 +0000

Ya garry plug you to man !! Seriously though, my question is, and thi smay be a dumb one. Isnt it weird SEO to link to yourself from your domain, or does the bot discount these links. What about having blogs on the same server and linking to them from your higher PR'd pages and posts from other blogs, ya they'd some how have to relevant, I get that, but do you think the bots look weirdly at that Check out shane at making money blogging's last blog post..Whats a Hoplink - How to create a hoplink

By: Debt Consolidation Solutions

Debt Consolidation Solutions — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:36:39 +0000

I honestly haven't gone back and done this, but I do have some a blog with some age to it. I'll have to give this a try. Great tips as always. Check out Debt Consolidation Solutions's last blog post..Kevin Trudeau Reviews — Reviewing Debt Cures

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:06:41 +0000

"You can do a simple search in Google to see how many backlinks the sites you are competing with have, from there you can set a goal on the number of backlinks you need" Not sure how important this is outside of the make money online niche. My Linux Blog ranks #5 for a term with only 25 backlinks. All of the other sites around it have way more backlinks. I guess it just proves that backlinks are useful, and do help get you to the top, but they are not the only factor. Check out Owen's last blog post..htaccess allow from

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:03:14 +0000

Hi Louis,

Like I said, you might want to investigate further. I am sure there are sites that provide more stable solutions. If you find something, come back and let me know.