This is one of the most important pages in your WordPress Admin Panel. This page is where you will draft each new blog post.

This is where you will write the title to your blog post. One of the keys to a good blog post which takes advantage of SEO is to make sure you are using some of the Keywords that best describes what you are blogging about.

The permalink (formally known as the post slug) is what you can customize to change the appearance of the blog post’s URL. Without permalinks set up, your blog posts will have URLs that end in something similar to ?p=1, instead of /post-title/ or however else you set it up. You want your Post Permalink to have keywords in it just like the post title. The area highlighted in yellow is the area you can edit if you wish. However, this is also the area which will include your post title. Unless you title is very long, I would not recommend you edit it.

This is where you will type in the content for your post. Even though we are not covering in detail search engine optimization in this tutorial, your post should contain your keywords in a natural way, but be specific to the topic you are writing about. This is also where you would insert images relevant to your post. But even more important, the content you post about should be relevant and interesting to your target audience.

Categories are also a way of organizing your blog post. Like tags, they are keywords for your post. While Tags are specific, Categories are usually a more broad definition of your blog. Even though how you organize your blog post is really up to you, think about your post and what important areas you are talking about. You should also try to limit the total number of categories in your blog post to no more than 2 if at all possible. I would encourage you to try to limit it to one. Use Tags to further mark your post. Tags are discussed below.

To add a new category, you will want to click on the link which says “Add New Category”

Once you click on the “Add New Category” you will be given the option to add your new category. You can also assign a category to a parent. Making that new category a “child” of the parent. This is handy if you feel you need to organize your categories into sub-categories.

The Tags area is where you would enter a tag, which is a keyword or keywords used to organize your post. They can also act as keywords for your blog post, thus it is important you keep them relevant to the post itself. Tag keywords are usually more specific than Categories. Tags are also very helpful with SEO. Don’t overlook this one simple step when you are drafting your blog post.