When your post does not show up under the topic that you tagged

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  handbookforthefiercebitch · Member · Nov 14, 2013 at 6:19 am

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  Sometimes…like TODAY- my post does not show up under the topics that I tagged….why ?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 14, 2013 at 8:48 am

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  That’s easy: with 17 tags, that is considered tag spamming. Cut it to a dozen or so.

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  handbookforthefiercebitch · Member · Nov 14, 2013 at 5:55 pm

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  Wow! Really ?? I had no idea that we should limit the amount of tags…I thought it was a good thing to have a lot. Thank you so much for taking the time to help <3

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  timethief · Member · Nov 14, 2013 at 5:57 pm

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  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/