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The use of categories is very important to help separate your posts by the criteria visitors to your website might be using. If you do not use categories, a tag cloud can still help visitors to navigate your multitude of posts. Some writers/bloggers use both categories and a tag cloud because the more help available for visitors the better.

YOU MUST BE LOGGED IN

From your Dashboard click on the dropdown arrow beside the Posts header. This will pull up several options including Categories.  In the picture below, the Blue Arrow shows the Posts header and the Red Arrow shows the Categories option.

Once you have clicked on Categories (Red Arrow above) under the Posts header a category menu will open up.

This is where you add categories. I would recommend starting with the most general category you are likely to use; for example, if you do most of your work in Tennessee this would be a good first category because it could then be used as a parent. You can and should put articles in multiple categories that will help focus a visitor’s search. *NOTE: IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU ARE ADDING CATEGORIES, YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANY PARENT CATEGORIES YET. ONCE YOU START ADDING CATEGORIES, YOU CAN CREATE A HIERARCHY IF YOU WANT*

The following two images show categories; the one on top uses a hierarchy (parent) system to narrow a search and the one on the bottom does not.

Before you publish your post, place it in the appropriate categories by checking the boxes. Once you publish your article it will now be categorized.

Please let me know if you have any questions on how to use categories.