Categories
One of the basic building blocks of the wordpress blog structure is the category. A category is like a folder in your PC of which Creating interesting postswhenever you write a blog post, you assign them to a category to enable your visitors find a particular post in your blog.
While you do not need to set all of your categories immediately, you may want to add them as time goes by and your blog post count increases. So what is the best way to set-up category?
The best way is simply to use the keyword phrases you are focusing on. For example, if your niche is about “How to easily Create your own wordpress blog.” then you may consider creating the following categories….
Search Engine Traffic
Social Media Traffic
Referral Traffic
ETC.
However, the keyword phrases your blog is built around should become your keyword phrases.
Creating a Category
First of all you have to login to your wordpress admin area, on your dashboard, click Posts on the left hand side and then select Categories from the dropdown list.
Here you can add new categories. Just type in a category name, slug and if you want, description. Then click Add Category.
Now that is simple, whenever you create a new post, you can add it to one or more categories.
It is advisable that you add the category on each blog page so that visitors can easily click on it to view all posts that is associated with that particular category. This can be done by adding the sidebar widget “Category” to your blog set-up.
Pages.
Your blog will be made up of pages, for example, the page that opens when someone visits your site is your “Home Page”. Another two vital pages you should have are “About Page” and “Contact Page”. You should now add other pages you want.
Creating Pages
On your WordPress dashboard, click Pages on the left hand side and then Add New from the dropdown list.
Add the text for your new page and click save.
You may also add pictures and videos to your pages if you like but its always good to add your own picture to your about page for branding purpose.
Ones you feel that your page is complete and you are satisfied with the informations you provided, simply click on publish and your page will go live.
You can as well preview it to see how it looks before publishing.
Blog Post
Now this is the main engine of your blog, I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “Content is King” before. If you have a valuable articles on your blog, people will be visiting it from time to time and that means more money. On the other hand, if you don’t have good contents, your visitors will be clicking away from your blog, I’m sure you don’t want that to happen.
Therefore its of utmost important that you provide your audience with valuable content as to keep them coming back to your blog.
To add a new post, On your WordPress Dashboard, click Posts on the left hand side and then Add New from the drop-down list. Type in your post title and then your article in the larger content area.
You also have full control over your content – you can add bold or italics to certain text, add hyperlinks to other websites and create bulleted lists etc. all very easily. You can add images and video as well to give your posts more life.
If you do not have time to finish your post in one sitting, click Save Draft to return to it at a later time and you can see how your post will look at any stage as if it was live on your blog by clicking the Preview button.
When you are happy your blog post is finished, click the blue Publish button.
You are of course able to edit your post at a later time after publication if you want to correct any mistakes, add further content etc.
Creating a Better Articles
Creating interesting posts on your blog is not going to be a difficult task. There are many ways to get inspiration on what to write about. Visit forums, visit other blogs that are related to your niche, visit article directories and see what is happening on these places, I’m sure by the end of the day you will definitely gather what you can write about.
I’m sure by now, you can set up your own Blog, add a Theme and plugins, optimize your blog and create Categories, Pages and Posts for your blog. Therefore in my next post, i will share with you how to drive traffic to your new blog.
If you missed my previous post on how to set up a new blog, then follow the links below….
- How to easily Create your own wordpress blog.
- Effective ways to optimize your blog for SEO.
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californacation says
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Nwangene Theodore says
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Baju bayi says
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Theodore Nwangene says
Thanks