Did You notice This?
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I know what’s on my blog, I wrote it.
OK, but not every blogger here is writing purely for themselves. Most of them have other readers who don’t already know what’s on the blog (otherwise they wouldn’t be reading it)
I also don’t understand how people think that a link on their blog can be bringing them traffic. It’s sending traffic out, not bringing traffic in. You get the traffic from the global tags page, not from your link to the global tags page.
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Wank, you do get traffic from the links on your blog. It is how I explore WordPress. It is how I found Raincoasters blog. Through the tags system. Like I said earlier in the post above, I like to surf the tags that are common to my interests and land on other WordPress blogs with the same tags. It generates views on their blog and from my experience, it generates traffic on mine as well.
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OT @suebarnett: You said you related to me in all ways except being a man. Not sure what that meant, though I have heard of a song called “a boy named Sue,” so perhaps you’re a man? ‘Cause I’m not. (I may not say, “hey, I’m female” in my “about me” page, but that doesn’t seem necessary — I think it’s pretty obvious from the stuff I write and the fact that the slice of fanfic community I come from is easily 99% female — which is generally the slice that drops by my blog and would assume I was female with no second thoughts.) So just want to let you know, I am female, and it wouldn’t occur to me to think someone might mistake me for a guy. LOL!
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I just looked at my own “smidgen more about me” from my gravatar profile because I was curious what there could have made me seem manly (lol!), and this actually seems pretty feminine to me, even maybe stereotypically so:
In addition to writing, I enjoy knitting, tai chi, and vegetarian cooking. My current favorite books are the “Mma Ramotswe” No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. My sinful indulgences: dark chocolate, aged cheese, and red wine.
BW, I’m glad you liked the site, and yes, I designed it myself using the Coraline theme.
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I will be so happy if this change turns out to be permanent! As Wank has stated, links to global tag pages are a usability nightmare. I run a literary magazine on WordPress.com where we use categories for the issues, and it would be extremely helpful if visitors landing on individual posts — which is the majority of traffic — could see a link in the post to the rest of the issue in which it appears. (Up until now we’ve had to simply block the display of category and tag links with the iNove theme.)
I would certainly support the introduction of a new option to allow people to choose which tag/category link behavior they prefer. But barring that, the current state of affairs strikes me as not only the most sensible and expected behavior, but also the one likely to satisfy the greatest number of users, with all due respect to the folks in this thread who are upset by the change. The global tag page situation has been the one feature of WordPress.com preventing me from recommending it wholeheartedly to, for example, writer friends looking for a good place to start an author webpage. Trust me, no professional wants tag and category links to go offsite in a counter-intuitive fashion.
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This issue used to make perfect sense:
“Categories” linked posts to similar content in your own blog.
“Tags” linked posts to similar content on other blogs.It was the best of both worlds.
But now, both Categories and Tags only work internally on your own blog.
What’s the point of this redundancy? Would wordpress & the people who applaud this change rather have more insular blogs than blogs that connect to others? That can’t be. I don’t get it. This is a bummer.
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I certainly with littlecrumcreek here, in that this redundancy makes no sense. Categories are a kind of table of contents of my blog, and thus help visitors to find posts of the same topic in my blog. Tags help them – and me – to find posts about that topic in other blogs, and that easily. The global tags are not a solution as not all blogs/posts appear there. I certainly hope that the previous setting will soon be restored.
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I laud and applaud this change that ought to have happened years ago. There have been n no cogent arguments that I have been able to isolate against this long waited change.
The global tags are not a solution as not all blogs/posts appear there.
Our published posts still appear on the global tag pages, unless they fall into the category of being mature content or one the the other “missing posts” reasons apply.
Wank describes why this change was introduced > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/did-you-notice-this?replies=82#post-676284
The target of a link should be indicated by what the link says. It should not be dependent on where the link is located.
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