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Why aren't my articles showing up in tag feeds?

  1. eccentricchai
    Member

    I currently have three blogs on wordpress. My main blog is Eccentric Chai. Recently, I have noticed a serious decrease in my activity on both Eccentric Chai and A Flock of Three. So, I decided to go and look for them in the feeds that coincide with my tags (ex. photos) and none of my articles are showing up. They are still showing up with my blog My Twenty-Seventh Year. If they weren't, I wouldn't be getting any views. So, I'm wondering if there is a setting I have selected, or something isn't getting tagged correctly which is preventing me from showing up in feeds.

    Another question: I wrote an article yesterday that got my blog A Flock of Three over 450 views. I'm pretty sure it's because it was shared on facebook 19 times and on a birth board on Babycenter. However, I have received no likes or comments. Is there a setting that keeps non-wordpress members from commenting? Is there a setting that I have turned on that is preventing comments?

    The blog I need help with is eccentricchai.com.

  2. eccentricchai
    Member

    I need staff support on this. Because from what I'm reading, I can't fix this without a staff member. What do I do? I'm not going to upgrade my wordpress just so I can ask how to fix it. If need be, I'll find a different place to run my blogs.

  3. timethief
    Member

    It could be that you are inadvertently spamdexing. When it comes to Categories and Tags, assigning the least combined number of relevant ones is the rule of thumb. Will you please check out the reasons for non-appearance here?
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts If you have assigned a combined total that exceeds 15 Categories/Tags to your posts, then you need to edit and delete. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/ After removal note it may take several days for your posts to begin displaying there.

  4. eccentricchai
    Member

    Is that for each post? Or altogether? Because I just wrote a post that only had about three, because I was worried that might have been it, and it's still not showing up.

  5. timethief
    Member

    re: http://aflockofthree.wordpress.com/
    Comments are open on the posts on that blog. However, there are so many images on the latest post that it peeved right off having to wait for them to load so I could even see a comment box.

  6. eccentricchai
    Member

    The latest post for a flock of three only has two images...

  7. timethief
    Member

    The combined total of 15 categories and/tags is what Staff have set. It's extremely generous.

    I'm a librarian and trust me when you say you are happy I did not set the maximum as it would be half of that. As an analogy how much would you love a librarian who sent you to 15 different library shelves to find a book that should have been assigned to 1 shelf?

  8. timethief
    Member

    Sorry. :( I was referring to this post http://aflockofthree.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/recently-in-margots-world/

  9. eccentricchai
    Member

    No, fifteen categories is fine, I was just wondering if that's overall as opposed to fifteen per post.

  10. eccentricchai
    Member

    Okay, so do I have to go and delete all of my categories and tags? Or do I just have to do that for a particular post? I have a very versatile post, so I have lots of different categories.

  11. timethief
    Member

    The maximum is a combined total 15 Categories and Tags on each and every individual post.

  12. eccentricchai
    Member

    okay, so then my question is: why isn't my most recent post showing up even though it only has a combined total of 4-5?

  13. timethief
    Member

    For every post that has more than the maximum combined total of 15 Categories and Tags you must edit and remove the excess Categories and/or Tags from that post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/

  14. eccentricchai
    Member

    holy crapola. That's going to take me a billion years.

    Well thanks.

  15. timethief
    Member

    okay, so then my question is: why isn't my most recent post showing up even though it only has a combined total of 4-5?

    That could be because there are previously posts in the blogs that have more than the maximum and the software finally apprehended that.

  16. eccentricchai
    Member

    So once I remove those excess tags and such, my posts should start showing back up?

  17. timethief
    Member

    I have a very versatile post, so I have lots of different categories.

    WordPress.com is very accommodating and generous re: the maximum combined number of Categories and Tags. Google is not. On one hand the traffic flow form WordPress.com topics pages is negligible. On the other the traffic flow from Google is significant.

    Neither Categories nor Tags are required for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes. These days search engines pay more attention to your keywords in your content than they do to your keywords in Tags/Categories. Note also that Google's algorithms can detect when any Category or Tag assigned does not appear in the text of a post. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/

  18. timethief
    Member

    So once I remove those excess tags and such, my posts should start showing back up?

    Yes but it may take several days.

  19. eccentricchai
    Member

    Alrighty! Thank you :)

  20. timethief
    Member

    You're welcome and my bill will be in the mail ... lol :D (just joking). Best wishes for happy blogging!

  21. eccentricchai
    Member

    Alrighty! Thank you :)

  22. eccentricchai
    Member

    Okay, so I fixed the problem on the 19th--made sure every single post had less than 15 combined tags and categories, but my posts are STILL not showing up. It's been three days. My other two blogs are showing back up on the feed, but eccentric chai is still going unnoticed. This isn't fair. I work hard and have worked very hard on that blog and now it isn't even being seen within the wordpress community. I'm very close to just shutting down the whole thing. I don't want to pay to receive staff support, I just want to know what the heck is going on.

  23. timethief
    Member

    I'll tag this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

    On the up side do note that it's search engines like Google and Bing that bring significant traffic to blogs. The flow of traffic from topics pages is negligible.

  24. eccentricchai
    Member

    I've noticed a significant decrease in my traffic since my blog has stopped showing up in wordpress feeds. My other two blogs still get pretty good traffic because they are visible to the blogging community. Thanks for tagging the thread.

  25. timethief
    Member

    You're welcome.

  26. eccentricchai
    Member

    I'm waaaaaitinggg

  27. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    What is the URL of the blog with the problem?

  28. bbylois
    Member

    I am facing the same problem . I use only 7 tags , not offended tags and it is created some weeks ago .I tested it and it never showed up in the feed I follow. The blog name is bavalons.wordpress.com . I asked previous support , no reply yet . Could you help, tx

  29. eccentricchai
    Member

    the url is http://www.eccentricchai.com

  30. macmanx
    Happiness Engineer

    Sorry for the trouble! In both of your cases, you should appear after your next post.

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