Sharing Buttons
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I’ve just activated sharing for social media, but the buttons are not appearing for old posts, which people are reading now. How can I activate this for old posts?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Please provide URLs for the posts in question in the form of an active link starting with http://
Which setting have you enabled at Settings > Sharing?
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Please note that connecting and/or reconnecting Publicize with Facebook and/or with Twitter does not re-publicize missed posts, but it will only work for future posts.
On an unrelated issue I see that you have changes to make. 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 and in the Reader.
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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I just checked again – they’re showing up now. They just don’t show up when I try preview changes to the post – no worries.
Regards,
Liam -
TimeThief many thanks – I am currently trying to optimise my site for SEO as the traffic is dreadful (albeit the last 2 days are by far the best as I’m now active on Twitter) so that is appreciated.
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You’re welcome. You are inadvertently spamdexing AKA tag spamming. And, 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 and the Reader, 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.
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Thanks, TimeThief.
I seem to be getting more Facebook hits now that I’ve made those changes. Let me know if you have nay other ideas.
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Liam -
I’m happy to read that Liam.
re: increasing traffic
Invest more time into locating and on commenting on blogs with similar content. Identifying who your target audience is, what they already know, what they need to know, where they are found, and the best way to deliver your message to them is critical to success.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/09/01/how-to-identify-your-blogs-target-audience/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/Two ways of attracting like-minded subscribers are
(1) commenting meaningfully and frequently on blogs with similar content and
(2) being active on social networking sites.On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.See these for Staff tips:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/postaday/ebook-grow-traffic/If you want to increase traffic then don’t listen to anyone who professes there are passive ways of doing that. Increasing traffic to a blog is hard work. If you want your blog to rank well in search engine results then that begins with creating and publishing original content ie. unique content that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/
If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/
6 Ways to Make Google Your Blog’s Best Friend > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/10/08/6-ways-to-make-google-your-blogs-best-friend/
Here’s another helpful post 7 Common Sense Social Networking Tips http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/12/07/7-common-sense-social-networking-tips/
Enroll in courses http://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/
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