i basically want my blog http://www.my-oil-painting-techniques.com to do well in the search engines.

i dont quite know how to optimize a blog site and wondering if the category name(ones that would go along the menu bar) needs to be a profitable keyword, because its hard for me to make sense if i use the profitable keyword for category names.

so im wondering if it would be alright to just use non-profitable words to be the names for my category, such as, "portrait/figurative", "still life","landscape","tutorial",
but then my link would be something like mydomain/landscape.com and the word landscape is not at all a profitable keyword for me. a profitable keyword is "oil-painting-techniques" but i do not want my category names to be like "still life oil painting techniques"" landscape oil painting techniques" as they are too long and id probably run out of room on the menu bar.

thanks again and if there is anything else you can suggest to me to improve my site for search engine ranking, please let me know.

Hi

When building websites you can use images in your navigational bar(menu bar) instead of words. The image would say something kind to the eye like "techniques" but you would then attach an alt tag to the image that would say "oil painting techniques".

Hope that makes sense.

You said you have a blog so not sure what you can and can't do, so I would suggest to keep you menu bar nice using one words. But if possible at the bottom of your blog pages have a list of words (the profititable versions) linking to the same pages as in your menu bar.

In effect you have two links going to each page.

Hope that helps

Mike

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