Categorising your posts within your blog can really change your blogging game big time. Your readers will easily sink into your content by following the topics they’re mostly interested in and won’t bounce because of the posts that are not really up their street.
Categorising your posts with Blogger is way easier than you think. Just let me make this clear for you:
CATEGORIES = LABELS
Shocking, right?
So even if you just started your blog, you probably already got a chance to look into post editor (Navigate to POSTS on your Bloggers dashboard and select Edit on any of the posts).
On the left side of your screen, you should see a box named LABELS, just insert required categories into this area, separated by the comma and you will now have your posts labeled/categorised:
Once you set the categories you wanted, go to your LAYOUT section and look for PAGES widget.
Select Edit.
You will now see an option to ‘ + Add EXTERNAL link ‘ into your menu bar. Click on it- you’re going to use this option to set up those category links.
The format for the link is simply your blog URL + /search/label/YOURLABEL, where “YOURLABEL” is previously inserted label, such as “fashion”.
So, http://yourblog.com/search/label/fashion would display all posts with the label “fashion”. Go ahead and copy this link into Web Address section.
Be aware! The label in the URL needs to be spelled EXACTLY the same as you have typed it into the labels section. It is case sensitive, so make sure to double check your letters. Thus, if you typed “Fashion” into the label box instead of “fashion” then change your URL link to match.
Use ‘Page Title’ area to insert the name for menu bar tab, it doesn’t have to be the same as your label, but it probably makes more sense if it is.
If you don’t have your own custom domain just yet, you can easily use your .blogspot.com link too! In this case you should insert URL like this: http://yourblog.blogspot.com/search/label/yourlabel
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Here you go! You can add as many links like this as you wish, so it’s time to get to work, my friend!
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