details in email notifications

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  aaroncohenphotography · Member · Dec 14, 2011 at 6:43 pm

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  I have a photography blog, and instead on always creating new posts for pictures, I have categories, then I file posts in categories, and make the post a gallery (if you’re confused, go to my website, you’ll see what I mean). So I’m rarely making new posts for new categories, I’m always UPDATING the gallery inside posts. This doesn’t make it look like a new post, so followers don’t get emails. Is there a way I can change WHAT followers get notifications for?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2011 at 6:53 pm

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  Please read what follows carefully understanding that page based structures suck from an SEO perspective. Static Pages sit outside the blog structure. Static pages cannot have Categories and Tags assigned to them. Pages do not appear in our RSS feeds and that cannot be changed. Only posts appear in RSS feeds. Most Pages do not have date stamps in their URLs. They have very little “google juice” Other bloggers rarely if ever backlink to static Pages in their published posts. Consequently, Page structured blogs have a very difficult time:
  1. securing traffic;
  2. securing comments;
  3. securing backlinks;
  4. achieving authority in their niche;
  5. achieving Google PageRank.
  Read more here > Better Blogging at WordPress.com: Pages and Posts

  You cannot post to Pages; you can only edit and add to them. Pages are static and sit outside the blog structure. With WordPress, you use categories to organize posts into subjects and then you can add those categories to your navigation using a custom menu.

  Staff have provided help for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  What’s critical is:
  (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.

  A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus