Blogger's Categories

Hi,

as a user of the blogger, I know that i can't categories my post because blogger dont have that kind of funtions. So today, if you still dont know how to categories your post, this post will be great.! In this post, it will tell you how to

Categories using Technorati...

This article is taken from blog The Church at the Gate

I have been trying to figure out how to have my own categories on my blogger.com site. I have searched tutorials, blogger.com and even technorati.com to discover ways to do this.

Several bloggers have hacked ways to create entire blogs dedicated only to hosting each of their categories. In other words, when I click on "blogs" on my sidebar it would take me to another ?????.blogspot.com site that I have created specifically for that category. Too much work.

There were some javascript tutorials that I didn't understand to begin with and the steps they said to take were poorly written and difficult. I tried them all and none of them worked for me.

Finally, I was going to update my technorati profile for the first time and discovered that every tag which I had used for my posts was listed there. I then realized that I could discover the url for each of my tags that I had created for my posts through technorati and then add them as links on my sidebar just like I do with my lists of friends or important posts and such. In a stroke of brilliance, I began inserting url addresses for all of my tags. Thus, "Technorategories" were birthed. I'm no HTML genius, but I don't know if anyone else has thought of this yet, but until I know otherwise, I am claiming the coining of the term "Technorategories". (I even did a google search to see if the word even existed.

I now have all of my posts categorized and sorted thanks to Technorati.com.

Here's what blogger.com bloggers can do:
1. Sign up for Technorati with the 25.2 million other bloggers that have done so already.

2. Find the link on the Technorati site where you can "claim your blog" and do it.

3. Begin tagging each individual posts by following the technorati directions (you can go back through your whole site if you want to and tag each of them retroactively) with the code
(a href="http://technorati.com/tag/yourtagname" rel="tag")yourtagname(/a)
substitute < for (

4. Do everything that Technorati requires to tag your posts, update your profile, etc.

5. When you have tagged with the categories that you want for your blog there should be a list of your tags on your profile page at technorati.com. Use this code and paste it into your template where you want your category list to appear. Make sure you change the category name, the user name, and substitute < for (:
(li)(a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/yourtagname?user=yourusername")yourtagname(/a)(/li)

On my sidebar, one of my tags looks like this:
(h2 class="sidebar-title")Technorategories(/h2)
(ul)
(li)(a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/blogs?user=creitz")blogs(/a)(/li)
(/ul)

Which can be viewed here on my blog about pastoring a church in Boston.

If any of this is unclear, please comment and I will clarify or help in any way that I can. If you are just learning about tags or categories, I can explain further. This technique makes it so you can search your own blog through your "technorategories". Every post that is tagged "blogs", for example, would be indexed on the technorati page. When someone sees one of your "blogs" posts that they want to read, they click on the link and are taken directly to your site. I hope you find this useful. It's a complete departure from my usual content.r tools, blogger tips

alright..now i will tell a little problem of this way :
your user will be directed to technorati page, means away from you blog page.
But at there, the user actually will stil can read all your post and still have a link to ur blog. If u still confuse, please click at my categories to see what i mean.

See ya!

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