Howdy! I took some of your advice and began filtering my tags. Sometimes I still see stuff if I end up missing a variation of the same tag, which leads me to a pertinent question, if you have the time to answer it:
So when I tag my stupid posts, the only one that’s really consistent is “ask something-tofightfor” and the others all vary depending on what I am posting about ... but when I tag my writing, it depends on what it is I’m writing.
I usually start by tagging the character, and then the pairing, and then variations of the pairing (for example, din x reader, mando x reader, the mandalorian x reader) and then various tags for the specific stories (the mandalorian: magnetic, ezra: starlight, here comes the suniverse, he’s not here, etc).
I want to say that only the first 5? tags are indexed, so while your post will come up as long as it’s tagged with a speific tag when that tag is searched for, I think only the first five tags you choose really count, meaning that if someone follows a specific tag, it’ll only show up for that tag if it’s one of the first.
I ALSO think that tumblr changed it recently so you can only use 30 total tags? I want to say that I had way more on earlier chapters of Magnetic, and they just ... got cut off when they changed. So now I just sort of work my way down in terms of importance for tags. the beginning ones are the meaningful ones, and the later ones are the “fun” ones, or the ones that I’ll use for my own tagging purposes (magnetic masterlist, masterlist, writing, etc).
I’m probably not the best person to ask about effectively tagging posts for writing content, because to be honest, my stuff doesn’t seem like it’s super visible in the tags that I choose to use - and I’m not sure if it’s because the posts don’t get many initial notes, or just because they get lost among all of the others, or what.
They show UP if I search for them sometimes, but I just searched for the mandalorian x reader, and sorted by most recent - and Magnetic: Din’s POV Part 3 shows up ... but Magnetic Chapter 12 does not, even though it’s my first tag used on that story. Din Djarin x reader ALSO does not bring up the chapter 12 post for me, but it does - again - for the POV and the sneak peek. So I really don’t understand how that works. But it’s frustrating.
I’m sorry if that didn’t answer your question! But I hope that filtering has made your time here on this site more enjoyable. :)