I have experience running a lot of blogs and working on many of them too, but whatever may be your experience with regards to blogs one of the biggest headache when opening a blog is choosing appropriate categories that really goes with your niche.
Many people plan their blog design in advance and in fact its a good practice to do but even while planning your blog in advance there are times when you tend to go blank on deciding appropriate categories for your blog and no one can deny that fact. Frankly its one of my primary concerns that I must select appropriate categories and not only those category names should be appropriate, they should be keyword rich too. So how you can go about?
But I found the answer for this some time ago and I use it every time when I want to decide on the categories and the method is fairly simple. Here is what you need to do, just have an idea on what is the primary niche you are focusing on your blog,? is it marketing or SEO or recipe or whatever it may be. Then do a search in Google foe that term.
For example let me do a sample search in Google for the term “recipes” and we will see how you can get your category names from it. So once you did a search just scroll to the bottom of your results page and you will a number of related terms to recipes.
You can also do a search in singular form like recipe and check the related terms for it
So now you can save those terms and decide up on the terms which you think will suit your blog better and make them as your categories.
Tags: category names, keyword rich categories
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