Missing from Freshly Pressed
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Several times a month, my posts don’t show up in Freshly Pressed. There is nothing that I do differently from other posts that appear normally.
Does this happen to anyone else? Is there a fix?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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“Freshly Pressed” is handpicked, curated content chosen daily by WordPress.com Staff to showcase outstanding posts. See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/freshly-pressed/
Perhaps you mean from the Reader’s Topics pages? If so, see here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts
If those suggestions don’t match your situation, please post back here.
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Thanks. You’re right about my terminology.
But I checked their list and my post doesn’t fit any of their reasons for rejection. Like I said, it seems to happen a couple of times a month (I usually post 5 times a week.)
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This is the combined block of categories and tags you assigned to a single post ie. your latest post:
Posted in Constitution, Crime, Culture Shift, Election, Media, Obama, Obamacare, Progressives, Racism, Taxes | Tagged congressional investigation, constitutional rights, current-events, Election, Eric Holder, Homeland Security, liberty, lying liars, Obamacare, politics, tyranny, voter fraud |
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 spamming AKA tag spamming. You ought to be more concerned about Google and Bing than 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 too. I read the list too quickly and only counted tags. I am glad I finally got around to asking as I never knew any of this.
(Maybe I’ll need to write shorter entries that don’t require so many tags. :) )
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Categories and Tags are not required for SEO purposes at all. Categories and Tags are for assisting your on blog visitors to locate content that’s not on the front page of the blog.
What you need to do is assign only the minimum combined number of relevant categories and tags to any post.
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