how to recycle/repost a post
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hello;
I have noticed that typically within 5 minutes of posting a post, that the post moves off of the page, such as the POETRY page, since so many posts come in so quickly;
it would be nice to re-post a post; is there a way to do this?
thanks,
Shannon -
just use the sticky feature or change the date on the post you want to re-post. I hope I understood your question correctly. Im assuming you wanted to move a post that appears on the bottom of the page to the top of the page.
HTH
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aw1923, thanks for responding;
I tried the date editing technique for one of my posts, and it did move that post to the top of MY home page;
it did not move the post to the top of the POETRY page, though;
is this possible??
thanks,
Shannon -
when I say POETRY page I am referring to the POETRY page that is available on the wordpress.com righthand-side TAGS list;
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Published posts appear on the wordpress.com global tag pages in accord with the original timestamp at the time of publication. We can edit any post after publication but doing so will not effect it’s placement on the global tagging pages.
Take a moment and consider this. If three million wp.com bloggers could edit and change their timestamps to game the system by changing the placement of their posts on the global tag pages chaos would prevail. Gaming the system would be the order of the day and there would be absolutely no integrity to the tagging system.
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I suppose that that is true;
my other thought is to copy/paste a post ( copy a post, and paste into a new blank post ), but the comments do not get copied;
and of course I end up with several copies of the same post;
thanks,
Shannon -
here’s a thought: wordpress could easily setup a system that WOULD ALLOW reposting BUT ONLY ONCE per day;
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A better idea would be to try using less popular tags. Instead of just the generic ‘poetry’ why not try ‘haiku’ or ‘sonnet’ or whatever fits. Think about what the person who is particularly interested in what you are writing about might search for.
And no. Reposting once a day would kill the system.
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Yep, If you were to find a wordpress tag for “Rev Joseph Illo” I would be the only on listed, even though many other wordpressers blogged about him. And I got a lot of hits from it. So its definitely important to use more unique tags.
I agree with rosclarke, mainly because I would be the one re-posting my posts LOL, and I have a couple hundred post I would love to repost right now. Maybe you should use other ways of promoting your blog post, such as digg or reddit, maybe that can help your older post become popular.
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Another way to look at reposting is to simply link back to relevant older posts to get readers deep into your blog.
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I have seen people doing stuff like this to game the system just at Timethief says. And staff have suspended those blogs, because that kind of activity is against the Terms of Service and really, truly frowned upon.
Reposting like that will also irritate your readers to the point where they’ll get fed up with being used, duped, baited and switched, and will leave your blog.
Please resist the urge to put your trust in these penny-ante cheats and put your trust in your readers and the quality of your own work.
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@diamondfistwerny
Rain and I remember a time when the existing global tagging pages set-up had to be introduced in order to stop the game players from rendering the global tagging system utterly useless. -
Thanks Timethief. I thought that was the case. I do remember all that crapola. My boyfriend was kinda involved in the forums drama around one woman who got quite a reputation for gaming. She was really good at playing the victim, when WP caught on to her antics.
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I was trying to be specific. Here are things I saw people warned or suspended for doing:
People who published, then edited posts repeatedly so they’d show up in the pages again.
Publishing, then unpublishing, then re-publishing repeatedly.
Publishing extra filler posts with the same title as top posts, then taking them down just so people could click to a 404 page on their blog.And I won’t go on. Because someone will take that and run with it, get suspended and blame me.
BTW games of this sort show up in your RSS feed and often result in search engines downgrading you severely, as they think (rightly) that you’re gaming the system.
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Well, I just thought the problem had been taken care of like 2 years ago. Didn’t realize that people could still game.
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