Comments on: The Remarkablogger WordPress SEO Teleseminar - It’s 1am and I’m Just Now Coming Down

By: Growing Blog Traffic: Remarkablogger Blog Seminar (and contest!)

Growing Blog Traffic: Remarkablogger Blog Seminar (and contest!) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:43:21 +0000

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By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:13:52 +0000

@Sonia - Thanks! Glad you got such value out of it. The recording will be available during the weekend or by Monday.

@Dana - Thank you, that means a lot coming from an SEO professional! If what you’ve learned helps your clients perform better (and you earn more money) that is a best-scenario outcome!

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:05:54 +0000

I had to comment, once I stopped laughing at that pink hair!

1 - The teleseminar was very personal. I was expecting a webinar format, and it took some mental adjustment to become comfortable with the small group format. Loved it!

2 - Thank you for staying on so long to answer our questions! You also did a great job of keeping conversation on-topic with specific answers!

3 - Your tips and resources helped narrow and solidify my SEO quiver of tools and resources.

4 - I wish I would have attended such a seminar when first starting out in blogging. I made so many mistakes…and learned I still am. I’ve been in SEO a long time but almost a noob regarding good WordPress usage. I can now help others even better as a result of your strategies for how to plan, utilize categories and optimize multiple aspects of WordPress for keywords.

Sadly, I’ll miss the next Traffic Building session (I’ll be on a cruise). Anyone considering if Michael’s worth the money, sign up!!!

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:05:42 +0000

This was a great seminar, I got tremendous value out of it. Thank you, Michael, for offering it! And thanks also for recording it, as I had to duck out right at the 100-minute mark.

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:07:29 +0000

@Shelley - As few categories as possible is a guideline, and I gave numbers to give people some idea, but always take into account your individual situation, which may call for more.

Consider your long-term content strategy. If you want to build up a kind of permanent article database of beefier content, then pages are great. Blog posts still need to be categorized, of course.

Because page navigation links are often very near the top of the web page, they are crawled by search engines. The anchor text of the links should be highly relevant to your audience’s search mindset. FAQ’s would be good for this, for example, and you could keep adding to them over time.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:13:19 +0000

Hi Michael,
After listening to your seminar last night I have a better understanding of how to use categories for SEO but I have a follow-up question. It seems like for my healthewoman site, I should use pages to break down information into major categories (i.e. gynecology, pregnancy, ) and then categories within the pages to organize topics (e.g. on “gynecology” page categories might be: “hysterectomy” “hormones”, etc. not to exceed 7 categories. Overall if you have 14-21 categories including the pages (for example 3 pages) and categories on each page (max of 7 per page), does this violate the SEO optimization rule regarding categories? Should you have not more than 7 categories for the whole blog?