Common Mistakes Uncategorized

July 29, 2008 by Blogboy
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face-palm-300x225 Common Mistakes Uncategorized

One of the most common blogging mistakes that almost all noobs and many more experienced bloggers make is us using the “Uncategorized” category. This category, while a useful catch all, shouldn’t be left as it is. Having any post in the category signals to Google that not even you can categorize your own thoughts and it puts less weight on posts in that category. To optimize your SEO opportunities you should do one of two things, either not use the category or change the name to something beneficial.

Not using the category is what I did for a long time in all my blogs. Then I got to a point where I just had too many categories with too few posts in them, which is also counter productive to SEO. When reading Courtney Tuttle’s fine and famous article on Keyword Sniping, I deciding I could once again make use of the dreaded uncategorized category. Once I found my niche keyword or in many cases search phrase, I simply changed the name of the uncategorized category. This leaves me with a nice catch all that actually benefits from having lots of posts in it. I am still not up to lots of posts in some of the blogs, but that doesn’t matter either, I will get there.

In true keyword sniping fashion, you can see where I have made good use of this on any of the following blogs:Entrecard Contest Directory, Free WordPress Themes, and The Other Blog by Pop Tart. The first use only their keywords as a category. The Other Blog uses it solely as a catch all.

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9 Comments on Common Mistakes Uncategorized

Ryan Nichole on Tue, 29th Jul 2008 8:11 pm

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but…I love that picture!

Ryan Nicholes last blog post..Forerunners, Chapter Ten

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Louise from Chicken Recipes Baked on Tue, 2nd Sep 2008 4:11 pm

There’s just about nothing I hate worse than hitting the Publish button for a post and realizing I have left it uncategorized. No real biggie if I catch it quick, but I have to do redirects if I catch it after it has been indexed.

Louises last blog post..Baked Chicken Recipe With Lemon and Garlic

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Mr Article on Tue, 9th Sep 2008 5:55 am

I hear you man, i always make that mistake myself and then usually realise a day later… Total noobs mistake but we’re human right lmao.

Mr Articles last blog post..What do snails eat?

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G from Mr Article on Tue, 9th Sep 2008 5:59 am

I just noticed the keywordluv plugin and had to try it! OMG it’s so cool, i’m amazed haha!

Gs last blog post..What do snails eat?

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Steven D on Thu, 30th Oct 2008 2:03 pm

Hmm, I realized I’ve been making that mistake on blogs for a long time now. I will have to spend quite a bit of time going back and adjusting the category name. thanks for the heads up.
Steven

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virtual millenium from funny.wallpapers on Sun, 2nd Nov 2008 11:36 am

funny picture , where did you find it?

virtual milleniums last blog post..Mountains Wallpapers

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blogboy on Wed, 5th Nov 2008 (5 weeks ago) 6:58 am

@Steven D - The easiest think to do is simply change the uncategorized category name. There is another plugin that will keep you from posting if you didn’t choose a category name. I will post on it some time in the near future.

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blogboy on Wed, 5th Nov 2008 (5 weeks ago) 7:04 am

@virtual millenium@funny.wallpapers -
There is a wonderful plugin for wordpress called Tagaroo. It will not only help you pick semantic keywords/tags, but it will find publicly shared flickr photos you can add to your blog. It is fantastic. Expect a post on it in the near future.

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TigerTom on Sat, 15th Nov 2008 (3 weeks ago) 6:38 pm