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How to Keep Tags and Categories Organized

Posted 24 March, 2015 in Blogging Tips / 14 Comments

This Bumblings Blog Tip is part of March’s Be a Better Blogger challenge: clean up your categories. Do you need to reorganize yours? Join the challenge today! As daunting as it seems to clean up your categories after months of them getting out of control, that’s the easy part. Hell, I changed the categories on over 100 posts, and it maybe took an hour total. Add to that the 5 minutes I took at the beginning of the month to plan out what changes I would make. But that didn’t address the root of the problem: how easy it is to […]

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How to Edit WordPress Categories in Bulk

Posted 11 March, 2015 in Blogging Tips / 10 Comments

This Bumblings Blog Tip is part of March’s Be a Better Blogger challenge: clean up your categories. If you’re anything like me, you said you were going to be so good with your categories when you started your blog. “They’re going to be so organized, work so well with tags, and I’m never going to let them get out of control. Five categories, at most, ever.” Heh, yeah. Sure, Brittany of the past. But don’t worry. I’ll clean up your mess now. And it won’t even take that long, #likeaboss. #BlogTip: How to Edit WordPress Categories in Bulk Click To Tweet […]

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Categories vs. Tags: What’s the Difference?

Posted 5 March, 2015 in Blogging Tips / 7 Comments

Welcome to the first Bumblings Blog Tip of this month’s Be a Better Blogger challenge: clean up your categories. In the 10 years I’ve been blogging, I’ve seen so many things about categories and tags. Most of the conflicting advice stems from the fact that people think they’re basically interchangeable. And while you can certainly structure your own blog however you want to, there are certain things to understand if you want to make your blog as browsable as possible. In my opinion, you have three options: Use categories but not tags Use tags but not categories Use them both […]

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My March Be a Better Blogger Goals

Posted 3 March, 2015 in Features / 13 Comments

Hey everyone! As you (hopefully) know, this month’s Be a Better Blogger challenge is about organizing your post categories. I need to do this so badly! Here’s what mine look like now: Lots of categories. WAY to many categories. I’ve already decided what my categories are going to be, I just need to make the changes. My Goals New categories: Announcements Be a Better Blogger Blog Tours (excerpts, release day blitzes, etc.) Blogging Tips BookBlogWriMo Features (Read This Round Up, memes, interviews, author spotlights, etc.) Reviews Weekly Write-Ups That will take me from 18 to 8, which is pretty good. […]

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The Weekly Write-Up: ApollyCon Be Cray

Posted 3 March, 2015 in Weekly Write-Ups / 2 Comments

The Weekly Write-Up is where I talk about what’s gone on in the past 168 hours, both on the blog and off. Squee! I can’t wait to tell you all about my first big book signing. But I’m going to, because that shit’s way too long to be part of a larger post. It needs to be it’s own damn thang. For once, I don’t feel bad at all about posting on Tuesday instead of Sunday, because I’m still catching up on sleep. Jump to: It’s My Life On the Blog Links I Lurve Book Bumblings It’s My Life So I’ve […]

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Be a Better Blogger: Clean Up Your Categories

Posted 1 March, 2015 in Features / 8 Comments

Hey everyone! Welcome to this month’s Be a Better Blogger challenge! But first, a few housekeeping items: New Be a Better Blogger Structure The structure of BABB is going to be changing a little, with linkups and stuff. You may have noticed there was only one linkup for February, instead of the two there were in January (one for the announcement, and once for the results). To simplify things, the two will be combined. I noticed a lot of people were doing both in the same post, and that’s also what I do for challenges I participate in. So on […]

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