Tags not showing up in "follow tags"

turn2burn · Member · May 26, 2015 at 7:34 pm
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I tag my posts and publish them.
I go to my reader, go to “follow tags” and then type in some of the tags that I have used.
My posts do not show up.

Example: I posted about cooking with yucca (pretty obscure huh?). I tagged it with “yucca.”
I go to follow tags with “yucca,” and my post doesn’t show up.

Why not?

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timethief · Member · May 26, 2015 at 8:26 pm
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This is the block of combined tags and categories you assigned to that single post:
This entry was posted in Culinary, Food and tagged adobo, cookbooks, cuisine, edible flowers, Flor de izote, flowers, foraging, Recipes, southwest, southwestern cuisine, steak, tomato sauce, West Texas, yucca. total = 16

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 that.

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

For tips on tagging see > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/03/15/quick-blog-post-tagging-tips/
turn2burn · Member · May 26, 2015 at 9:12 pm
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thank you

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