How to structure a wordpress blog

Wordpress is amazingly flexible, the back end allows you to write and structure your blog with an amazing degree of ease, if you are using the self installed wordpress and your own domain (such as with Bloggers network), then the degree of freedom you have with structuring your blog is further increased, allowing you to create microsites, and structure these sites in a whole multitude of ways.First lets look at  the different variables:

In wordpress you have, four main variables you can use- posts, pages, categories, and blog roll.

Posts are time stamped and related to each individual article you publish, these can them be grouped in categories. Catagories work to group posts into sections making it ideal for classifying, you can add subgroups as well.  Pages act as permanent articles, lastly the blog roll acts a list of external links.

Obviously you can use all this anyway you like, however here is how i like to structure my wordpress blogs:

Post are for things I regularly update, reviews, news etc.

Catagories are subjects eg Game consoles, or Electronics, or DVD (posts are DVD titles)

Pages I use these for more permanent articles, features,  site information, Forums and so forth.

Blog roll, I use these for listing affiliate links or links to sponsors.

Having a good structure will greatly improve your users experience which mean they’ll more likely return and that will improve the chances of you marketing to your users.