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Flagging Up New Blogs

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thescarletclothespimper · 01/10/2011 16:50

Hi mumsnet, I was wondering if you might consider changing the A-Z system for searching for new blogs? Just a suggestion but would it not be useful to be able to search for new blogs under specific catagory headers such as cookery,fashion,advice ect. You could also consider rotating each of the catagory listings on a daily basis to make it even fairer and list randomly rather the alphabetically. Thanks

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ElinorMumsnetBloggers · 04/10/2011 10:58

@MmeLindor

Interesting idea, but I am another one who just won't fit in a single category.

The Keyword only searches the short description under you name, so if you want to be searchable then ask MNHQ to change the bio.

I searched for expat but didn't find my blog because I don't have the word "expat" in my bio

Hi all

Thanks for all the ideas here. A couple of thoughts on our search options:

The reason we've written fairly literal descriptions of your blogs in the alphabetical index is to make you more searchable.

We also want to offer several different ways for people to search for your blogs. We didn't launch with categories because we didn't want to narrow the scope. Blogging's all about diversity, after all. But we've started to see some definite themes in the blogs and are exploring the idea of placing blogs in a few different categories, so people can find you more easily. I think this would be a useful way for you to get more readers, without pigeon-holing you (a blog could appear in up to three different categories, for example). But we'll be following this thread to get your feedback.

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