How to improve browsing through archived posts in a book blog?
I've been thinking about how to design a more user friendly book blog (link's at the signature). Comments from whoever has seen a book blog are welcome.
Basically, I want it easy for people to browse for reviewed books that are already archived posts. I know that I don't personally go through the posts in an archived month manually. Whenever I want to read a book, I just think "Hmm. I'm feeling something dystopian today." "What about a female heroine? I haven't read a book with a female heroine in a while." So I was thinking, what if each review post had a tag that was a funny sounding trope name, like in the style of TVtropes.org? (man, I love that website. I sink hours into it)
So I've already done some trope tagging (which you can see at a glance from the tag cloud), but a better way to get picked up by search engines is to also tag the author's name and stuff. If that's the case, then I can't have a trope-only tag cloud. So I was thinking of making a separate page with a title like "Browse by Trope" and just manually put in the links. It would be time intensive every time I post up a review, but if I were to do that now, it would be a lot easier since I only have two reviews up for now and another one coming in a few days.
Thoughts? Is it a good idea? Does it seem like I'm over doing it?
Book bloggers, how do you make it easy for people to browse through archived reviews?
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