Any suggestions on how to categorize the Emanate Presence blog?
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As I explored WP more, found a place for connecting with the community.
The page asked me to select categories of interest.
Well, I am 60 this year and have had experiences enough for many lifetimes.
I am well satisfied with business, technology, in fact all the categories offered.
The only one that is attractive is Nature. No further interest in the others.
I am interested in people, and will visit their blogs individually as I feel drawn.
Just not interested in the WP categories.
The blog I am writing, however, does not fit even into the Nature category, when it comes to categorizing it.
‘Nature’ brings up mental images of wildlife calendars, National Geographic, PBS, maybe articles on sustainability or environmental issues. Those may be nice, but they are not what I write.
I could see the blog in Personal/Spiritual Development. No WP category comes close.
Okay, justpi, here’s a shoot (from your response on another thread.)
Any suggestions on how to categorize the Emanate Presence blog?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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At WordPress.com you don’t categorize the blog itself; you categorize each post, and you create your own categories, so if you don’t fit into what you think is a pre-existing category, just don’t use it. Use something else. Every post must have at least one category attached to it, even if only Uncategorized. But I have, for instance, the category “Operation Global Media Domination.” I doubt anyone else is using that.
If you know what your post is about, distill it to one or two words and use that as the category. If you don’t know what your post is about, leave it unplublished until you do.
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Sorry, my question was unclear.
I am referring to a WordPress.com page that encouraged me to select categories of my interest in other blogs.
It came from my following a link which had to do with ‘how to make one’s own blog more visible.’
What I read said, if I remember rightly, ‘categorize your blog so others can find it.’
I’d have to dig through the Learning Center to give specifics. Maybe later today….
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” a WordPress.com page that encouraged me to select categories of my interest in other blogs.” I do not know what that could be. We had an off-topic section for self-promotion, but it was deleted about a year ago. Technorati asks you to choose tags for your blog, but clearly you’re not talking about Technorati. If you find the site again, please put a link to it here.
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I actually do remember being asked to do this when I first signed up. But I really don’t think it has any impact on the blog’s categorisation. I think it may actually be more related to your reader, because, from memory, it looked like this: https://wordpress.com/#!/read/recommendations/ which is the one for the reader anyway. Is this what came up?
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Ha! Danielsreading, you are one step ahead of me.
I just backtracked on the links followed and came to the same page.
Learn WordPress.com
Get Connected
Don’t fear the Reader
Recommended Blogs – What do you want to read?
http://en.wordpress.com/#!/read/recommendations/I now see the recommendations page is to find blogs of interest and suppose my association was that the Emanate Presence blog would not fit in any of the categories shown.
But I understand now that the Tags are an important way for blogs to be found. Here are some tags that came up, which seem to fit the EP blog:
Daily Living
Enlightenment
Life
Love
Philosophy
Religion
Spiritual Path
Spiritualityin addition:
Inspiration
Personal development
Personal growth
Poetry
Reflection
Self-awarenessI brought the Tag Cloud Widget onto my Dashboard. How do I make it show on the blog?
Any suggestions for tags for this blog, if anyone is inspired to answer? The posts will be on a similar theme so the main tags can be duplicated for most. Thanks.
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You can’t ‘categorise’ your blog, instead, you use tags and categories to ‘categorise’ each of your posts, so that they will then pop up in the reader to possibly interested readers.
So when you make some posts, you just add tags to it, and categories for the ‘featured tags’ (make sure you don’t use more than a total of 15 categories and tags).
You may want to read the following support documents:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/
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Signing up and filling in preferences on that page that you showed us is entirely optional. I’ve been here seven years and never saw it before today. You can ignore it if you feel none of the categories speak to you.
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Just answered by own question about the Tag widget.
I had selected Tags in a post yesterday, nothing showed widget-wise.
Now the Widget shows on Dashboard and Post.
Probably was just a delay in the processing.
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