Sudden drop in visitors to my blog

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  mundderwahrheit · Member · Sep 22, 2013 at 5:52 pm

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  The visitor statistics on my blog have suddenly gone down since 12 September – from about 50 – 100 visitors to only between 35-45.
  I have not changed the content, style, topics or frequency of my posts. Could there be another reason ?
  Thanks in advance for your help or suggestions.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 22, 2013 at 5:54 pm

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  See here > Weekly and daily digest email subscriptions are currently not working. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weekly-and-daily-digest-email-subscriptions?replies=23

  I’ll tag this thread for Staff to take a look at your stats. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  amightywp · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 8:49 pm

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  Hi there,

  In addition to some issues with the Digest emails, I looked at the posts which you’ve been making recently, and I noticed that several of your more recent posts have quite a few categories and tags attached to them. Too many combined tags and categories will result in your post not being included in the WordPress.com Reader, which is where a large portion of most blogs’ traffic comes from.

  You generally will want to keep your combined number of categories and tags between 10 and 12 but certainly no more than 15 total.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 8:56 pm

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  @amightywp
  Thanks for the assist and dang! I ought to have picked up on what you posted.

  @mundderwahrheit
  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.

  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 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.

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

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

  For tips on increasing traffic see here > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/drawing-visitors-to-my-site?replies=2#post-1425845

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  amightywp · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 9:01 pm

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  Always a pleasure, TT! :)