Posts are not showing up when I search their tags
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Hello!
I am really hoping someone can help me out. I created a new blog about a week and a half ago, and have written a couple of posts. This is not my first blog/s on wordpress, but a week and a half ago I deleted my old account and created a new one.
Regardless of the posts I have typed, I have received no views or likes. I just posted another one an hour ago, and tagged it (under 15 tags as recommended), then I went to ‘explore topics’ then ‘search tags’ and typed in one of the two tags associated to my new post. It presented heaps written around the same time as mine, yet mine is nowhere to be seen. I tried the other tag and the same thing happened. Then I tried tags from all the other posts I have written, and still there is absolutely nothing come up.
I of course read what wordpress had to say about it. This is from their help page associated to this issue:
1. You are using too many categories or tags. In most cases, there’s no need to assign more than a handful of tags per post. If you use more than 15 tags and categories (total), your posts will not appear on tag pages (because you don’t want to see irrelevant content showing up there, and neither do we). – As mentioned, I have been using less that 15. Sometimes only 2-10
2. Your blog is private or hidden from search engines. Check the Settings -> Reading tab of your dashboard. You must choose the first option, Allow search engines to index this site, for your blog to be included on tag pages.- I have TRIPLE checked this. My blog is NOT private and I have ensured that I have allowed it to show up in Search Engines
3. Your blog is mature or offensive. If you regularly post material that is offensive, not safe for work, or not suitable for minors, we might have flagged your blog as mature. Mature blogs are not included in the tag listings. Please contact support if you think your blog might have unfairly been flagged as mature.- I post not inappropriate content. Only recipes, photography and poems.
4. You are misusing the tags feature. If you’ve been regularly using the “knitting” tag on posts about Britney’s latest scandal, your blog might have been excluded from tag pages for a while.
Other examples of misuse include:Using misleading or irrelevant tags
Marketing material, duplicate or low quality content
Attempting to push a post to the top of the tag results by changing the publication date multiple times
Check our policies regarding quality content and try to use appropriate tags and categories. Your blog will automatically be re-included on tag pages after you have regularly posted with appropriate tags for a while.- – Every post has different tags I have not used before. Also I have only written a few posts, so doubt I am on some black list.5. Your blog is very new. It can take a few days before new blogs are included on tag pages. Brand new blogs might not have enough posts for us to accurately determine whether or not they’re spam.- It has been way more than a few days, and with my old posts I have never, ever had this problem.
6. Your blog is set to a language other than English. You’ll need to use a different URL to find your post. Just change the ‘en’ in http://en.wordpress.com/tag/yourtag to the abbreviation of your language. For example: a German (de) tag page would become http://de.wordpress.com/tag/yourtag. Here you can find a list of languages we support on WordPress.com.- It is set ONLY to English.
Can somebody please explain how or why this could be happening? I am really not happy, and am considering switching blogging platforms. Here is a link to my blog, in case someone can see something I cannot. https://soultandpaper.wordpress.com/
Any advice would be very, very much appreciated. Please help :(
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Hi there. You started a new blog. You have five posts on it, all written during the past week (the earliest post I can find was published January 28). That qualifies as a very new blog. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve had an account on WordPress.com or how successful your previous blog was. This blog is only a week old and has very few posts.
Keep the following in mind: when you deleted your old blog you lost all the people who were following that blog. Starting a new blog means starting it with zero followers and no search ranking whatsoever on any search engine. In fact, it will take weeks before your posts will start showing up in Google and other search engines again, because that’s how long it takes for them to index any new website.
You need to start rebuilding your following from scratch. Post regularly so search engines will start indexing your site more quickly. That will also help with getting your posts to start showing up in topic listings in the Reader.
Then you also have to draw people to your blog. Simply having them show up in the reader is no guarantee people will actually read them. Visit other blogs. Leave meaningful comments. Invite people you know to follow it. Share on social media. In short, do everything you did to gain a following on your previous blog.
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Hey Kokkieh, thanks for your reply.
The only points you make that seems to be open to possibility is the indexing and post count. With the indexing I have checked if my blog is displaying on Google, which it is doing fine. WordPress say to allow a few days, however it’s been 3 weeks now.
My partner is also a website developer so I have be able to diagnose all possible options with him too. He explained that any search algorithm will use popularity as a factor in determining relevance. With this in mind when I search a tag that is so specific to my blog (jeanann) that I’m the only person to have that tag, it still doesn’t show in the tag search results.
As for the post count. I have now got 8 posts. Do you think I need to have more posts to get indexed with WordPress? If it is this then it’s now to WordPress as I’ve never had any minimum post problems before.
Could a WordPress staff member please help me. I’m not new to WordPress and am baffled by this issue as it’s a new one to me.
Thanks for the help :)
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soultandpaper,
This should work for you now. There was a small glitch about the time your blog was created where the language settings were getting stuck.
I’ve fixed yours now so you should be all set.
Let me know if you continue to have trouble.
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