Showing up on HOME or ENTERTAINMENT
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WordPress:
First, let me say that I adore my WordPress blog — it is a great way to itemize thoughts, essay on topics and sometimes must vent.
However, I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong: why do no blog entries from my blog EVER show up on the WordPress HOME page as a HOT VIP POST or HOT COMMUNITY POST? Or for that matter, why do no blog entries of mine EVER show up on the ENTERTAINMENT forum.
Have I somehow excluded myself from these forums?
Please help. I definitely want to plug into the rest of WordPress.
Any advice?
David Jetre
http://www.jetrefilm.comThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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That’s not a wordpress.com blog and so will not be part of the community here. FYI, self hosted blogs running on wordpress software are supported at wordpress.org. See the sticky at the top of this forum for further explanation.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….checking into this. So will it show up there (WordPress.org)?
Thanks for your help too.
David
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Hi again, David. There are no global tag pages for self hosted blogs as there are for blogs hosted at wordpress.com, so there’s really no parallel place for it so show up.
Your dot com blog should be making the tags pages. As for hot posts, staff understandably won’t say how those are determined.
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Oooooooooooookay.
Sorry for the repeat questions here. I seem to recall I came to WordPress.com to set up my blog. It further has a WordPress.com suffix and not a WordPress.org suffix.
How can it not be a WordPress blog?
These points aside, you are saying I’ve set up a completely quarantined blog that does not interact with the parent site at which I set it up — correct?
This obviously begs the question, how do I set up a WordPress.com blog that will not be exiled from forum recognition?
Sincerely,
David
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This is your blog? http://jetrefilm.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/
The blog linked to your name (and the link you gave in your original post) is not a wp.com blog. I don’t think it’s even a wp.org blog—we see quite a few people with self-hosted .org blogs and their software is different from ours. justjennifer had to do some detective work to figure out which blog you are talking about.
You may be excluded from the global tags system because you are using too many tags and categories. 10 or 12 is about right—otherwise you look like a spammer.
http://support.wordpress.com/global-tags/
http://support.wordpress.com/?s=number+of+tags(you are not exiled from the forums, just provide a link about the blog you are asking about)
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Actually, you are not excluded from glogal tags. At random I clicked on one and it shows here:
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dylan-barth/Anyway, WordPress does not tell anyone what the secret to getting on the Home page or Hot post or whatever. If they did, then everyone would try to scam the system.
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Weird.
I remember coming to WordPress.com and I got started. It was simple, so I am not sure why I appear to be a self-hosted blog.
I only have 8 categories which reflect my film company and our many projects.
With regard to tags, I am more than happy to limit the number of tags I use, but when I placed them I received no error or hint of error that I was using too many of them. Because film is such a huge, complicated, collaborative effort, I have tried to honor all the people and phases of development with regard to my blog posts. The tags I have used represent less than 10% of those persons and solutions required to make a single film.
Lastly, I find it odd that WordPress.com will not offer any suggestion for blog visibility on a blog site. I assume this reflects the day’s present phobia of spammers and such. Just understand, I do a tremendous amount of things. I link and tag accordingly.
My blog is located at http://jetrefilm.wordpress.com
As with many things in our current age, the rules appear so arcane, cumbersome, nuanced, vague and secretive in order to prevent abuses, that those who have a genuine interest in fair play are quickly throttled by the labyrinth of compliances that must be observed in order to participate. I understand this is necessary. Just understand it is also withering to the enthusiasm of the honest person.
Thanks for your help.
I’ll take it from here.
David
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jetrefilm,
When you don’t post a link to your wordpress.com blog, we only see a post about something we can’t help with. Most often it’s someone who doesn’t know the difference between wp.org and wp.com. That’s why folks assumed you had a .org blog. In your case, when I click on your name, it’s neither a wordpress.com nor a wordpress.org blog. Right?
RE: # of tags and categories—Read the links and search the FAQ’s, forums, and support more closely: only 10 to 12 total of tags + categories per post. You can have an infinite number of tags + categories per blog, but per post, keep the number low.
Withering or not, searching FAQ, forums, and support will show there is a lot of advice about promoting your blog.
WordPress is not any different from Google or Yahoo in not revealing how top sites are selected.
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There are hundreds if not thousands of tips on blog visibility in the forum. I’ve written several hundred of them myself.
And you DO realize that with three million blogs, there’s a post to the Entertainment category or tag every few seconds, right? You’d never see yourself there. And as for Top Posts, I’ve gotten 4000 hits on one post in one day and not made it. I DID make it with 17000 one day on one post. How are your hits?
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On the other hand, I’ve seen some pretty lame blogs “featured.” I don’t have an example, but unless I’m really bored…
I think they’ve changed the format since I gave up on it, so maybe it’s better now?
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Your last post has 37 tags and your previous one 31. As Tess told you, use no more than a combined total of 12 categories and tags per post or you get excluded from the gobal pages.
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@jetrefilm- please link your WordPress.COM blog to your username so that we know you are talking about a COM blog. Instructions are in the sticky “8 things to know before posting” at the top of the forum.
(PS rain, last I heard it was something closer to 5.5 million blogs on COM)
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