Wordpress Categories

Do you guys actually fill in the description for the Wordpress categories on your blog?

Are there SEO advantages to filling them in?

 

nope. i dont think it will improve your seo if we put the description.

-cypher.

 

I think if we add those desc. then it appears on mouse over...... maybe it helps in some way..........

 

When you type in the description, it will be showed in the title="" tags. This helps you describe where the links lead to. It won't help much but it will help.

 

Got another question for you guys then.

Is it better to have a small amount of categories or large amount of categories?

 

make less parent categories and put more child categories under them. that is what i did for my websites.

-cypher.

 

Its good if your categories also start ranking, you need to have unique descriptions for all your wordpress categories.

 

Try to keep to as few categories as you can - keep things tight and well classified. Also be aware that not all plugins cope with multiple categories per post.

 

it wont help too much ......... jst visible when ever mouse roll over it

 

en,it's just what i had done.

 

Parent categories? Child categories?

 

I've seen it on a few sites but haven't the foggiest how it's done

 

What is it? Any example? Any link?

 

Do you think it would be useful to people using text reader browsers or whatever they are called? for the partially sighted, maybe the text is picked up by those browsers and read back?

Does anyone know? if so thats a good thing, catering to disabled visitors.

 

How do you stop child categories from displaying with the parent categories within the sidebar?

 

you should be able to list the category ID#'s within the statement that displays categories, like this:

<ul>
<?php
wp_list_categories('orderby=name&include=1,2,3,5'); ?>
</ul>

Code (markup):

^^^ This one only displays category links that have IDs of 1, 2, 3 or 5, sorted by alpha. order

<ul>
<?php
wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=1&exclude=1'); ?>
</ul>

Code (markup):

^^^ This one displays all categories except the one with ID #1, sorted by alpha order

To see a category's ID number, just go into your admin panel, and on the "Category" page, hover your mouse over the category's link and you can see the ID number in the URL.

 

Hi markn26, thanks for the code, would either of those result in a tree like category structure, like when you click on a parent category within the sidebar you then see the child categories for that parent category?

Thats the problem i currently have, where i have a child category with a post in it but it isn't found after clicking the parent category, its showing like the parent categories do, even though its a child category.