Tag Search
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When I go to reader and enter a tag to search on I am not getting all the results.
For example someone I follow tags one of her posts “kings cross” I entered kings cross in the tags in order to search for it. At the time her post had been up for 55minutes and the results I got from that search was 2 hours previously.
I’ve done the same search just now before posting this and the kings cross post shown under the tag search is 5 hours old, the person whom I follow doesnt have the post appear when I search for it.
Can someone advise why this is?
The reason for me wanting to test this is because I am thinking of starting tagging on my posts and only want to do this should people find my stuff should they search on the word used.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Can you link me to a couple examples of posts you are expecting to see when you search but cannot find?
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As mentioned in the post the tag “kings cross” was the one I tested the search on.
https://wordpress.com/tag/kings-cross/
http://thatsaucytart.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/an-inauspicious-beginning/
Also If I search on items I have tagged on my own blogs I cannot find them in the reader/tag search
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http://thatsaucytart.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/an-inauspicious-beginning/ that post has VASTLY too many tags on it, and will be excluded from tag searches and pages because if the tag spamming.
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Ah ok, that explains that one.
IAs for the 2nd example, do our own tags not show up on searches?
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Also If I search on items I have tagged on my own blogs I cannot find them in the reader/tag search
That post was published back in January. Do you have a more recent example to test with?
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It may be because you have your site set to “Discourage search engines from indexing this site”. The WP search engine is probably respecting that.
Is there a particular reason you have your site set that way?
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Ahhh I thought that was just for external search engines.
The reason for that choice was two fold.
I didnt want the possibility of close family and friends finding and following the blog as I thought I would end up censoring myself.
Secondly I fired up a test blog which ive now deleted and encouraged search engines and was amazed at the number of pointless ghost followers I got, people that would follow and never ever interact, in fact 100% of the followers to that blog were like that. and so I wanted to try and avoid that.
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Yeah, there are some drawbacks. But overall, I would choose the visibility that the search engines give you.
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