I had selected Tags in a post yesterday, nothing showed widget-wise.

Now the Widget shows on Dashboard and Post.

Probably was just a delay in the processing.

Got it regarding the categories.

So when you make some posts, you just add tags to it, and categories for the 'featured tags' (make sure you don't use more than a total of 15 categories and tags).

You may want to read the following support documents:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/

I just backtracked on the links followed and came to the same page.

Learn WordPress.com
Get Connected
Don’t fear the Reader
Recommended Blogs - What do you want to read?
http://en.wordpress.com/#!/read/recommendations/

I now see the recommendations page is to find blogs of interest and suppose my association was that the Emanate Presence blog would not fit in any of the categories shown.

But I understand now that the Tags are an important way for blogs to be found. Here are some tags that came up, which seem to fit the EP blog:

Daily Living
Enlightenment
Life
Love
Philosophy
Religion
Spiritual Path
Spirituality

in addition:

Inspiration
Personal development
Personal growth
Poetry
Reflection
Self-awareness

I brought the Tag Cloud Widget onto my Dashboard. How do I make it show on the blog?

Any suggestions for tags for this blog, if anyone is inspired to answer? The posts will be on a similar theme so the main tags can be duplicated for most. Thanks.

I am referring to a WordPress.com page that encouraged me to select categories of my interest in other blogs.

It came from my following a link which had to do with 'how to make one's own blog more visible.'

What I read said, if I remember rightly, 'categorize your blog so others can find it.'

I'd have to dig through the Learning Center to give specifics. Maybe later today....

If you know what your post is about, distill it to one or two words and use that as the category. If you don't know what your post is about, leave it unplublished until you do.

The page asked me to select categories of interest.

Well, I am 60 this year and have had experiences enough for many lifetimes.

I am well satisfied with business, technology, in fact all the categories offered.

The only one that is attractive is Nature. No further interest in the others.

I am interested in people, and will visit their blogs individually as I feel drawn.

Just not interested in the WP categories.

The blog I am writing, however, does not fit even into the Nature category, when it comes to categorizing it.

'Nature' brings up mental images of wildlife calendars, National Geographic, PBS, maybe articles on sustainability or environmental issues. Those may be nice, but they are not what I write.

I could see the blog in Personal/Spiritual Development. No WP category comes close.

Okay, justpi, here's a shoot (from your response on another thread.)

Any suggestions on how to categorize the Emanate Presence blog?

Each upgrade at Wp.com applies only exactly to what it says.

On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/

Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
1. Structure a reader and search engine blog;
2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
4. Make your blog posts look professional;
5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care;
13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
15. Having a well designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
20. Join social networks and social media sites like Facebook and use Twitter, Friendfeed and other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts;
21. Promote your blog through social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
25. Create newsletters and/or Ebooks for your subscribers.

This thread has been tagged for closure. Please do NOT continue to post into it.

I was wondering what are some ways to build a community on wordpress? I mean, yes content is good but it's a little strange how some blogs add up 100s of followers, while others don't seem to draw much interest.

Perhaps other volunteers here will have some other ideas, and most likely you will be able to find a great deal of info about how to set up a forum online.

The only other real option is to move over to wp.ORG where you could use a more direct link to an embedded forum. At least I think you could do that. My experience with wp.ORG has not so far involved anything with forums. But there is so much more you can do on .ORG…
Just be aware if you go for that option, you are responsible for taking care of all that can go wrong, whereas here on wp.COM the problems are taken care of for you.

The only theme which shows posts and comments on the front page is P2.

Or perhaps if there is not a lot of talk talk you could designate one page for fan comments (linked in the top nav via a custom menu) with the newest comments first:
dashboard—>discussion—>Other comment settings—>Comments should be displayed with [newer] comments at the top of each page

IMO, you really want to set up an outside forum for best results of encouraging back and forth conversations…

And just a question: Why don't .org community use our translations instead? (It makes more sense to me as .com's strings are a superset of .org ones)