As I write this, I’m listening to the audio of my WordPress SEO Teleseminar and coming down from the event. It’s about 1 in the morning. I wanted to go to sleep earlier, but I was so jazzed from the seminar that I couldn’t.
I usually have an audio post on Thursdays, but I’m just not going to be able to get anything edited on time today.
What I want to do instead is thank all the participants in last night’s seminar. You guys had some great questions! I’ve been very happy with the feeback I’ve received so far on the seminar. During and after the seminar, the Twitter users in the seminar got on and voiced their feelings:
None of these were asked for (asking for testimonials is a great idea, but I really love it when I don’t even have to) and these are unedited screenshots of their tweets. I call these tweet-imonials! 
I deliberately kept this seminar small (only 12 attendees) so it had a nice "small room" feel to it. I figured we would go longer than the original time of 90 minutes, but with the Q&A at the end, we went over 2 hours! We covered some extra material. This is why the next seminar on growing blog traffic is already planned for a two-hour length (plus a few more attendees and a nice price).
I really wanted to deliver the goods with this and I hope that I have. I said attendees would get an "information pack" after the seminar. Well, the information pack turned into something as big as a report or ebook! There will be a lot of value in that, and all attendees will receive that. Attendees are also getting the entire audio of the seminar and a complimentary copy of Naomi Dunford’s $39 SEO School: How to be an SEO Ninja.
Now that I’m finally starting to "come down" from the seminar, maybe I can catch a few hours of sleep before daylight. Maybe I’ll dream about what I’m going to do for the growing blog traffic seminar coming up later this month!
Here’s to your blogging success!
Michael Martine, Remarkablogger
Blog Marketing is what I blog about, Blog Consulting is what I do–How can I help you? Click here to find out.
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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?
@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.
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.
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!!!
@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!
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