Proper Blog Navigation and Structure
One of the most overused and common errors in blog design is the use of date archives in an attempt to provide structure or navigation to most blogs.
They are a leftover artifact from the days when most blogs were personal journals. Now, by far the majority of blogs are written on a subject driven basis. NOT with posts like it is Tuesday and I got up and went to the doctor …. .
If you are writing on say healing techniques, it is unlikely your readers will care what you wrote on Nov 11 2006 but would like to read all the posts related to a specific technique.
For most blogs readers that want to read more than one post, will want to read another post on some subject matter. Your navigation should match that. Tags, can work but too often they are over used with a lot of tags pointing to each post. On a lot of blogs you can click on three different tags and only get one post displayed three times. NOT helpful. Navigation by category, supplemented by tags is the best approach for most blogs. I recommend assigning each post to only one category, then create tags equal other existing categories and use those. A tag that would only be used once or twice a year is not very helpful to your readers.
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