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  cinzia8 · Member · Dec 14, 2013 at 7:34 pm

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  How do I get my blog entries to show on Freshly Pressed? I’m doing something wrong.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2013 at 7:36 pm

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  See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/freshly-pressed/

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2013 at 7:37 pm

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  I think you mean that you want your posts to display on the Topics pages. All reasons for non-appearance of posts on Topics 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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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 14, 2013 at 7:53 pm

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  Freshly Pressed is a curated selection of the best posts each day, chosen by a handful of editors from the 75 million or however many blogs there are here. Blog better than 75 million other people, somehow manage to catch the attention of the editors, and get chosen. Good luck.

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  cinzia8 · Member · Dec 14, 2013 at 8:53 pm

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  Time Thief. Thanks. You’re right. I’ve got my terms mixed up and from what someone told me I thought the more tags the better. Before that information I had none!! I’m glad I asked the forum. I’m going to read the links you sent. Hmm, 1 in 75 million is better than the current lottery odds in the US. It could happen for Historical Happenings and Oddities. In the future, I will try to blog better and with time-wiser. Thanks again.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2013 at 8:56 pm

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  @cinzia8
  You’re welcome and not to worry. You can have a successful blog without ever having a single post in it selected by Staff to be featured on the Freshly Pressed page.