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y giving users a list of categories to browse on your site, you are creating a psychological conundrum that usually leaves them with a severe case of analysis paralysis. This is a condition where users, when presented with too many options, end up selecting nothing at all.
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Google recommends that you keep the number of followed links on a Web page under 100. Personally, I think you should try to aim for the 30–60 range, and further, I think each of those links ought to be to the most valuable content your site has to offer
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Dave HHow to choose new titles for popular categories and have them show as you wish in the sidebar with sidebar.php code
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Excellent article, most blogs need to work on Categories and Tags.
I have taken 1 or 2 more steps on my site.
I renamed the Category to Tips, so that the url now includes the word Tips instead of Category. I then assign only one Category to each post, and use Tags to break it down. I think of it like a Music Store, each category is like a genre, then the Tags are the real descriptors.
Using this method I have Blogging Tips, Programming Tips etc and I show the last 7 from each Category, giving me 28 previous posts in the sidebar.
Another benefit is that the Tags are giving me a lot of double listings in the SERPS this way.
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A heads-up: if you haven’t already, you probably need to modify your .htaccess file so that it contains something like the following
Redirect 301 /category/ http://www.yoursitename.com/tag/
Otherwise, for all of your pages that have been indexed by Goolge, Yahoo, MSN, and who knows who else, those indexed pages are going to generate 404 errors.
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Unless you fix it, this could end up hurting your ranking and will drive your search traffic to way down.
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In order to get your new sidebar items to display in a manner that is consistent with the rest of your sidebar, you simply need to mimic the existing markup structure when you insert your new items. Here’s the exact code you’ll need to add for your template:
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Being presented with more choices, even good ones, can hinder effective action. In one study, doctors couldn’t make a decision when a second promising drug showed up.
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Sue BrideHere’s the code I used in sidebar.php to generate a list (<ul>, <li>) of popular articles: 2\n\n<?php\n query_posts('category_name=Popular&showposts=5');\n while (have_posts()) :\n the_post();\n?>\n <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?> <?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?></a></li>\n<?php\n endwhile;\n?>
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Simone Economo"Categories are like a site’s DNA—they literally form the organizational framework that houses all of a site’s information. Like DNA, category structures are unique, and therefore, a one size fits all solution for handling them doesn’t make any se
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