Why are my posts not showing up when using Tags?

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  sebastianullberg · Member · May 11, 2015 at 10:21 pm

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  Hi, I just came to realise that the tags I have been using for the last year of blogging has given me a result of – my posts not showing up on the reader. To reach a broad audience to share my photography work with I thought to myself, Why not use a large variety of tags.

  I just read a post that said that ‘wordpress has a maximum of 8-12 tags per post. If you use more it will not always show up on the global reader.’ So i started to search for tags (over 8-12) i have used in my recent posts and found nothing on the reader. I then reposted with the same content but only using 5 tags and voila I could find the post on every tagged used.

  This means that for the past year in which I have made a serious effort in trying to share my content has been in vain due to overstepping a maximum of tags – which has never been informed to me as a user of this site(?).

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  alexjgustafson · Member · May 11, 2015 at 11:15 pm

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  The tag limit is in place to help ensure that no particular bloggers dominate or overflow the Reader. Since it’s a commonly visited resource, it’s just as much a target for spammers as it is a gathering place for WordPress.com users.

  I understand it must be frustrating to only hear of this rule now, and I apologize. If you’d like to read further about why content may not be appearing in the Reader, we have that information here:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/