Tags acting strangely

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    idohartogsohn · Member ·

    I can’t understand how the tags function on my wordpress.com site.

    Whenever I add a new post, I always add tags to it. However, when I press on tags that appear only on my blog (for themes other people didn’t write about), they don’t lead me to the other posts with that tag on my blog.
    For example, if I press on the tag “japanese psychedelia” in this post
    http://dailypsychedelicvideo.com/2010/06/21/katamari-damacy-2/
    I don’t get sent to a page of all the videos with that tag, such as, for example, this one:
    http://dailypsychedelicvideo.com/2010/06/23/crazy-japanese-horny-hip-hop-psychedelia/

    Searching the tag “japanese psychedelia” on my blog, does manage to find some of the posts tagged with that tag, but not all of them.

    And then, searching for specific tags such as “oo’s psychedelia”, which appears in the same post, as well as dozens of other posts,does not find any of the posts – so the tag is actually useless.

    Can anybody explain what’s happening? Am I doing it wrong? How do I get the tags to work?

    Thanks
    Ido

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Sometimes, if you’re the only person on WP.com using a tag, there is no global tag page. If, however, you can talk anyone else into using the tag, then it usually pops up as a global tag page. Staff strongly discourage the use of blog-unique tags and categories; the only way I have gotten away with the category Operation Global Media Domination for so long is that two other bloggers have used it, too.

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    idohartogsohn · Member ·

    Well that sucks… So, I can’t use my own tags inside my blog. Strange! Why do they prohibit using tags relevant only for your blog. what if my blog deals with stuff nobody else deals with – does this mean I should have no tags to work with?
    I find this exceedingly stupid!

    Oh, and it still did not solve the question why even regarding the same tag, only some of the posts come up, but not all of them.

    Thanks!

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    If your blog deals only with stuff nobody else deals with, there’s no real advantage to WP.com itself to create a tag page for it.

    As for why some posts come up and some don’t, I can’t help you, unless the ones that don’t show have too many categories on them and got bounced from the listings because it’s tag spamming. But you’d have to use more than 15 or so for that to happen.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    You can, of course, use unique tags if you use the appropriate widget in the sidebar; those will direct readers to your posts correctly. Use the tag cloud or category widget, whichever is approprate.

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