How do I categorize a new blog to drive traffic?
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I’d like my soon-to-be blog “Exit 4A” to be categorized under “Relationships.”
Can someone help me put this blog in its correct category? Thank you!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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We cannot assign categories or tags to blogs. We can only assign them to posts, so do be clear on that please. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/This is a multiuser blogging platform. Our blogs share a common architecture and we bloggers cannot access metadata and insert anything into the <header>. That being said it’s of interest to note meta titles, meta descriptions and keyword metatags are not required for SEO purposes and Matt Cutts of Google has said that as far back as 2009. Search engines are focused on keywords in your content.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/Keywords and keyword phrases naturally occur in any speech or writing and in every language. “Keyword stuffing” refers to a practice to be avoided at all costs. Keyword stuffing is loading a webpage with keywords or numbers in an attempt to manipulate a site’s ranking in Google search results. See here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/12/05/keyword-power-in-the-blogging-world/
WordPress.com SEO is very good. If you had two identical sites, one hosted here and one self-hosted using that same plugin, the site hosted here would have better SEO than the self-hosted site. WordPress.com has huge SEO and you get the benefit of that by having your site as a “subdomain” here.
I suggest that you read these two articles published by Staff.
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/ http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/seo-and-your-blog/To verify blog ownership of a WordPress.com blog with the major search engines you must use this process > http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
Note: Even if you do not verify the blog the content will be indexed by search engines so don’t feel panicky about this please.Note also that WordPress.com automatically supplies sitemaps for our blogs to search engines – we do nothing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines
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Timethief (LOVE the handle, by the way!), thanks for taking the time to respond so thoroughly to my inquiry. I appreciate the help as I begin to launch my blog.
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