Search does not pick up on my TAGS ?????

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  richardobousy · Member · Sep 28, 2008 at 11:34 pm

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  Hey folks,

  My blog has been up for about 7 or 8 week now and each post has relevant tags but whenever I do a search on the wordpress main page my blog doesn’t show up. I’ve made sure my privacy settings are set to “…visible to eveyone…”.

  Some of my tags even have my last name on which is unique but still nothing comes up when I search.

  Here is my blog http://richardobousy.wordpress.com/

  One of my tags is Obousy, which is the unique one which should definitely show up but it doesn’t when I search.

  Can anyone help me here???? Its irritating because I spent a lot of time putting up hurricane Ike posts (movies and pics) as I was in Houston and wanted people to follow this but as my stuff never shows up in searches so no-one can see the work I’ve put in!!! :(

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 28, 2008 at 11:57 pm

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  I’m not sure what you’re looking at but you are the featured blog on the tag obousy http://wordpress.com/tag/obousy/

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 12:01 am

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  By the way, your latest post is September 16, which is a long time ago in blog terms. When I look at the Hurricane Ike tag, none of the posts on the first page are more than 1 day old. Could be you just haven’t gone back far enough.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 12:01 am

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  Tags pages – especially popular tags – move very quickly. Sometimes you might have to go back ten or so pages just to get to what was posted in a semi-popular tag yesterday.

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  richardobousy · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 1:02 am

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  Thanks Vivian and sacred. I appreciate the time you put in to looking into this for me.

  I just took a screen-grab of what happens when I do a search for ‘obousy’ which is one of my ‘unique’ tags.

  I posted the result on http://richardobousy.wordpress.com/ – its the first thing that should show up.

  Viv, you showed a positive search when you did one, am I just doing something incredibly retarded here?? Why when I search for my own stuff is nothing showing up???

  Thanks again for your patience.

  :)

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  vivianpaige · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 1:05 am

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  You are using the blog search, not the tag search. There is a tremendous difference between the two. (For one thing, the blog search is b0rked.) To bring up the tags page, just click on the tag on your blog.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 1:07 am

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  I just went to http://wordpress.com/tag/obousy/ and there are 10 of your posts there.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 1:09 am

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  Are you using the wordpress search? If so, the search does not go after tags and categories, just post titles and post content.

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  richardobousy · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 1:27 am

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  Hmmm, ok. Thanks again vivian and sacred. I think the root of my problem is a misunderstanding of the tag concept (yes, I was using the wordpress search sacred).

  I did a search for bOrked and it means ‘broken’ vivian, is that right??

  Thanks again.

  Richard

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 29, 2008 at 1:36 am

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  You’re welcome. The wordpress blog search is a little anemic.