Post Not Showing In Tags

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  ikeaprince · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 9:53 pm

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  I recently posted a short story and one of the tags was “Fiction” I clicked the tag and it wasn’t on the Fiction tag reader at all. Same with several other tags. Why?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 9:59 pm

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  Hi there,
  All reasons for non-appearance of posts on Topics pages can be found here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts

  This is the block of categories and tags you assigned to a single post:
  Date January 31, 2015
  Category Writing
  Tag Creative, Diary, Fiction, Flash, Journal, Life, Lifestyle, Love, Novel, Novella, Personal, Series, Short, Short Story, Writer, Writing

  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 are inadvertently spamdexing AKA tag spamming, 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 that.

  The rule of thumb is to assign to your posts the least, not the most, combined number of only relevant categories and tags that accurately describe the individual post content.

  For tips on tagging see > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/

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  ikeaprince · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 10:00 pm

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  I didn’t know you could only do fifteen. I’m sorry. I’ll definitely limit myself, thank you. Sorry for the spam in that case.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 10:05 pm

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  You are welcome. Please read my tips post that I linked to above because you used the same keyword both as a tag and as a category and that too is spamdexing ie. tag spamming.

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  ikeaprince · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 10:08 pm

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  I use “writing” category for my blog to link people to my poetry, and writing posts. So, by doing that I cannot use it as a tag?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 10:09 pm

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  Yes. Please read the post as it lays all this out in clear terms for you.