Re: the real story on post titles, categories, tags
Six of one, half dozen of another. In other words, there are going to be a lot of different opinions and you’ll have to wade thorugh the minefield to figure out which suits your needs, which actually works too.
For myself, I look at a blog post as a mini book. The Title is something to grab the reader’s attention. Depending on the theme of my blog, I will use the title of the post, to make them interested, a hook so to speak.
Certainly don’t use’ harry’s blog dot com’ in the title, but will use a keyword that is appropriate. Such as’ Harry’s got Troy Fucking Max’
Categories to me are the chapters of the book. So I use one, such as ‘bareback’ or ‘safer sex’ or ‘amateur’ or, well you get the picture.
Tags, are a real bone of contention. You will get many answers, as to both how many to use, and to what end are they there for. Myself, I look at them as ways for my customers to find related posts. So if I am using a post about a guy from Butch Dixon, or Blake Mason, and have them both in a category of Amateurs. then my tags will relate to the men, such as ‘hairy’ ‘uncut’ ‘blond’ ‘bald’ etc. I try to use about 5 tags, sometimes less, sometimes more.
Sometimes I just get carried away, but bottom line is that, for me, I use tags to give my customer’s another way to find the posts, that are similar to the subject.
The one thing I have learned, over the decade, is that many will claim to be experts, but it is subjective. Search Engines are fickle, and change, and NO ONE knows exactly how they derive their results. Plus, what works for you, or me, may not work for someone else. I’d spend less time worrying about that, than trying to simply make the experience for the customer better. That, after all is what makes you the money. Traffic, is, well always a struggle, and always needs change of tactics, of procedures.
hth
Ian