I’m starting a random Blog Engage User Tip activity where every time I come up with a tip that can benefit our users I will write about it here on the blog. I will also add a link to each tip on our FAQ Page.
Today’s tip is our first in the serious and in my opinion can prove to be life saving for your positive Blog Engage experience! The fact of Blog Engage is we are starting to get very big! In fact so big it’s impossible to keep up with what’s being submitted.
In today’s tip I would like to teach you how to start focusing your energy in the area’s that matter the most. If you’re in the SEO and Marketing niche you don’t need to be seeing celebrity and home renovation blog articles do you? The same can be said for the health and beauty bloggers, you don’t need to read the latest SEO and Marketing news do you?
The Solution!
When logged into Blog Engage hover your profile area, you will see a link that will bring you to a settings page with tons of check boxes for each category found on Blog Engage. If you don’t want to see articles from a specific category, go ahead and remove the check mark from the category box. When you save your final settings the articles being shown on Blog Engage will be articles you want to see, and are not forced to see.
About
Hi There my name is Brian, I'm the owner of Blog Engage. I own a personal blog about SEO and Marketing. Make sure to follow blogengage on twitter @blogengage and like us on facebook. Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017
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Astro Gremlin
February 26th, 2012
Hurray! Great to see you guys working on improvements for the system. Looking to trying it out.
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bbrian017
February 26th, 2012
Hi Astro, this tip is so good, it can really change the way people use blog engage. Give it a try see what the results are! There must be some categories you don’t care about right?
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Samuel
February 26th, 2012
Great way to optimize your site, Brian. Doing this will help those like me see what I really want to see!
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bbrian017
February 26th, 2012
Hi Sam thanks for swinging by! Let me tell you, if you do this your going to love blog engage so much as it will be everything you want to see and nothing else. Also if you ever see articles in the wrong category please let me know and I will fix and while send a warning.
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Sanjeev
February 26th, 2012
Hi Brian, Nice start..with so much modifications going on in Blogengage, its a good idea to share tips. Your first tip helped a lot as I have already updated settings for me..which will make me interact with the blogger according to my niche.
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bbrian017
February 26th, 2012
Sanjeev this is exactly my point because there’s so much going on now excluding categories outside your niche will maximize the benefits of Blog Engage. I’m so happy you have already done this! Nice work my friend!
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Holly Jahangiri
February 26th, 2012
Brian, I think this will be a really welcome feature for some bloggers, but there’s also a risk – I think – that it will further marginalize some of the smaller niches and people might miss discovering posts they’d enjoy, but not seek out – and which would be hidden from view by this feature. I get it – and when I’m looking for something in particular, I’d use the Browse drop-down on the main menu. I like that, because it’s temporarily selective. I’m not sure how I feel about this category preferences feature.
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bbrian017
February 26th, 2012
Hi holly good point, this is a risky move as it will 100% minimize the content you see and perhaps you may have enjoyed but now don’t know it even exists. I can see for you an I this may not work but for some SEO and blogging members this is a dream come true!
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Rizwan Sultan
February 26th, 2012
That’s great Brian updating your product with that way it’s best way too move towards more success.
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bbrian017
February 26th, 2012
Hi Rizwan thanks for visiting, are you a member of blog engage right now your username isn’t familiar! Nice to meet you and welcome to our community blog.
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David
February 28th, 2012
I’m with Holly on this. But, on the other hand, maybe it will be good for some users.
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bbrian017
June 4th, 2012
If you want to make the most out of blog engage you must remove categories of no interest to you.
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Deborah Anderson
March 14th, 2012
I can see some great value, in finding those articles I’m looking for, but yes, like Holly said, those smaller niches may suffer and I have often times found the most interesting articles where I was least expecting
But, the beauty is that we have choices, like the browse feature. Thanks, Brian!
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bbrian017
March 28th, 2012
Yeah holly has made an excellent point on missing out on stuff you may have enjoyed reading. Remember you can always go in here and edit the options as much as you want.
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Prakash
May 23rd, 2013
This is really great to have these categories. This will increase the interest of readers.
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sherpa
May 23rd, 2013
Brian, I think this will be a really welcome feature for some bloggers, but there’s also a risk – I think – that it will further marginalize some of the smaller niches and people might miss discovering posts they’d enjoy, but not seek out – and which would be hidden from view by this feature. I get it – and when I’m looking for something in particular, I’d use the Browse drop-down on the main menu. I like that, because it’s temporarily selective. I’m not sure how I feel about this category preferences feature.
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riya
May 23rd, 2013
its really nice, this will help many people. these are some great modifications which will help people in finding which category suits article the most
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Karen Woodham
May 23rd, 2013
I like to have all the categories selected that I have a general interest in, which is quite a few, but it’s certainly a great way for those set is a single niche to keep an eye on their interest.
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alok
May 23rd, 2013
this is really a great tip ,it will surely help
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anis
May 23rd, 2013
Awesome tip to help us build a better blog thanks for sharing!
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Anirudh
May 24th, 2013
Whoa! Awesome Improvement. Continue the same in the future too! Great Going. Good luck
Cheers.
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