15 Benefits of the Label Gadget

This morning, I'm exploring the many benefits of the label Gadget. Here are some benefits, plus facts supporting these benefits, I've been able to gather so far:

1. The label gadget ties all your posts together that cover a specific topic. It makes your blog better by giving you better topic focus and better topic organization.
2. Posts can have multiple labels. For example, a single post on your Blogger blog can have the following labels: dogs, cats, and animals.
3. Each label is a so called permalink. Permalinks are indexed by search engines. That's probably why they are called permalinks. The term permalink implies permanence. Permalinks give your blog posts a permanent address. They also help give your blog a permanent presence on the web.
4. Perhaps a better name for labels is topics or categories. Each time you add a label to your blog, you are really adding a new topic to your blog. In other words, a new category or sub-category
5. In the example above, animals is a category and dogs and cats are sub-categories.
6. Don't get too hung up on categories versus sub-categories. The English language cares little about making a technical distinction between the two. Likewise with the label gadget. You are free to create categories and sub-categories to your heart's content. Why? Because categories and sub-categories live together and play together on the same level playing field. The label gadget doesn't know the difference—a good thing that makes the label gadget easy to use.
7. While the label gadget does not know the difference between a category and a sub-category, you do. Since you know the difference, you can easily turn your entire blog into a nicely organized hierarchy of categories and sub-categories using the label gadget.
8. It's my best guess that the combination of permalinks and a hierarchy of topics helps Google Search better understand the importance and relevance of your blog. With better understanding comes visitors that are more likely to appreciate your blog.
9. When you revisit a topic in a new post, you recycle the label (topic) by applying the old label to the new post.
10. Any number of posts can fall under one label. Got 1,000 posts that fall under one topic? All 1,000 posts can fall under the one label that describes that topic.
11. All the posts that fall under one label (topic) are gathered together and placed on the same page with a permalink supplied by Blogger for the address.
12. In effect, each label you add to your blog adds a new page to the blog. These new pages are above and beyond your blog posts. For example, a blog that has 10 posts and 5 labels has at least 15 pages.
13. Without something like the label gadget tying things together, your posts are ships in the night passing each other without one knowing about the other.
14. The label tool ties your blog together hierarchically the same way a website's navigation bar ties the website together hierarchically.
15. A hierarchical link structure is one of the most effective and time-proven techniques for getting your pages recognized by search engines.

Everything in life has an organizing principle. Planets orbit stars and starts make up galaxies. The whole universe is a hierarchy.

Without an organizing principle, your blog posts are grains of sand rubbing up against each other, but never quite establishing a relationship. The label tool establishes an organizing prinicple. When you use the label tool, you are organizing your blog by topic.

Ed Abbott