This morning I logged into my client's blog with the intention of making some improvements here and there. At first it seemed her blog was a mere experiment, but now she has a growing audience of fans and is really getting into posting thoughtful entries on a regular basis.
So, for a while things were going well... I was thinking that the Blogger platform was pretty intuitive, and the updates I was making to her sidebar widgets and things like that were relatively simple to do.
Then I got the mother of ideas... she needs blog topic categories! Why on earth does her blog not have categories?
Blog categories are really good for your search engine rank. I mean, think about it from the human perspective. Let's say you happen upon a blog like this one, about copywriting. You start reading an entry, and then you want more. What's the first thing you'll do... go to the sidebar to see what other kind ofreading is here. This is where categories are SO. VERY. HANDY. Organized by topic, does it get any better?
So you can imagine my dismay when I realized that Google (Blogger) blogs do not offer a Categories feature the way that Movable Type blogs (like this one) do. Of course I researched the issue on Google to confirm. What I found was some random bloggers talking about how you can "hack" Google blogs and add some special code to the main file if you want to start using categories.
This is a little too high tech for me, and in fact, the few links that I did click while searching for that hack code led me to dead websites. "This page no longer exists."
I wouldn't want to "hack" a client's blog and screw it all up. I'm a copywriter and web marketer, after all, not a coder.
So, that's the sad news about Blogger blogs. No wonder I don't have one. And with that being said... hey Google, why don't you give us some categories already?
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