Do you ever think about organizing your blog? I’m thankful for the ‘search’ feature on my blog. Otherwise it would be very difficult to locate information buried in my older blog posts! That’s why Marian Wood’s recent post, Cousin Bait: Ancestor Landing Pages caught my attention.
While I already had a few ‘landing pages’, I wasn’t taking advantage of the ability to use pages as a way to organize my posts. Heck, I even struggle keeping my existing RootsMagic page updated with newer posts. While I would love to emulate Marian Wood and create a landing page for each of my ancestral lines that includes link to the posts for that line, I’m going to take some time to think about how I need to organize additional pages.
After putting Marian Wood’s type of landing pages off for now, I looked at Randy Seaver’s pages and decided that I could make some changes to an existing page and add some additional pages.
- Changed the name of my ‘online trees’ page to ‘My Genealogy‘
- Added pedigree charts for each of my grandparents to the ‘My Genealogy‘ page
- Created an Ancestors page listing out my ancestors with links to the narrative reports for each ancestor
- Created a Cousins page with links to the various descendancy reports I’ve published
I also made some changes to the sidebar of my blog. I added a ‘contact’ form and moved the word cloud above the archive listing.
Thanks Marian Wood for the challenge to evaluate my blog and see how I could improve it!
Like you, I rely on my search to find details in old posts and am sure there must be a better way. I’m going to check out Marian’s post, thanks for the tip.
I used to have many surname link tabs in my header, but I love your “My Genealogy” section and “Ancestors.” I need to update my choices, too. Thanks for the idea and to Marian for discussing Landing pages.
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