Adding social media share buttons to my posts.
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How do I add a line of social media icons for people to use to share blog posts? I thought I had done it via the Settings/share settings menu on my dashboard. When I ran a preview of a trial post, I didn’t see them appear. What am I doing wrong?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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They are appearing. Please click a post title and scroll down to the end of it. http://homewoodatlarge.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/city-council-meeting-jan-27-2014/
You have another issue. This is the combined total of Categories and Tags you assigned to a single post:
This entry was posted in City Council, Park Board and tagged 29th Avenue South, Arts Advisory Council, Belle Foods, City Hall, Crest Drive, Dupont Public House, Edgewood Elementary, Food World, Gonzalez-Strength, Green Springs Highway, Homewood Farmers Market, Interstate 65, Lakeshore Parkway, Laurel Place, Mi Pueblo Supermarket, Moretti Circle, Parks and Recreation Board, Pastry Arts, Senior Center, Volkert Engineers, WalMart, West Linwood Drive.
All reasons for non-appearance of posts on WordPress.com Topics (categories and Tags) pages can be found here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts
As you have assigned a combined total that exceeds 15 Categories/Tags to your posts, you need to edit and delete. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/ After removal of the excess categories and/or tags note it may take several days for your posts to begin displaying there.
You are inadvertently spamdexing AKA tag spamming. And, you ought to be more concerned about your posts not appearing and being well ranked on Google and Bing SERPS (search results pages) than not appearing on the WordPress.com Topics pages because it’s search engines that send a significant flow of traffic to blogs and they can choose to bury your content where the sun don’t shine for tag spamming.
The rule of thumb is to assign the least, not the most, combined number of only relevant categories and tags that accurately describe the post content. For tips on tagging see > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
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Thank you so much. I’m aware (dimly) about the tag limit, but this is a hyper-local news blog and it’s important to me and possibly readers to trace the mention of certain addresses and topics through time. But if you think the search box works well enough, then I’ll go edit and delete to 15.
Should I do this for all posts henceforth, or go back in time and delete?
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If you do not want the search engines to assume you are a tag spammer get rid of the excess. The reason why is clear. Search spiders are focused on the keywords in the body text.
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