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This has been a question that’s popped up a couple of times over the years so, to try and condense it into a sort of master-post, this is how to maximise your chances of content being seen by the blogs with tumblr’s janky tagging and @ system. This applies mostly to my blogs, but serves as a handy how-to for tumblr at large.

NOTE --- Even with these explanations, there’s still a chance your content won’t be seen. Yeah, it sucks, but that’s just tumblr. I’ve had posts pop up in the moogle tags/search that I can’t see but other people can see, even though my main blog ( because these are both sideblogs! ) hasn’t been blocked. That’s easily proven in the fact I can reblog the postsm, not to mention my main blog is relatively unknown in the community so the likelihood of being blocked is minimal afdkgjhfdg. --- anyway, onto the bulk of this post!

Tagging: a huge, HUGE thing a lot of people don’t know about tumblr’s tagging system is that when you go to tag a post only the first five tags will appear in tumblr’s tag results. The rest are apparently seen as applicable tags for your blog ( why? I have no idea! ), so they won’t appear. So, for example, if you want your post to be seen in the tag tumblr.com/tagged/mooglemodels, you HAVE to make sure #mooglemodels is somewhere in the first five tags. I’ll give an example:

So #final fantasy xiv, #balmung, #mateus, #mooglemodels and #ffxivscreenshots will appear, but the last two won’t. However, this is ONLY applicable for tags.

AMENDMENT: Please note that tagging only works if you’re the posts creator. Tumblr will not record reblogs in its tagged page. I believe the same applies for the search function too, though that’s currently unverified. Basically if you’re not the posts creator but you want me to see your content, please @ the blog or IM me. 

The search function, which you can see for @mooglemodels by clicking here, should, at least theoretically, catch everything after the first five tags --- but it doesn’t always work. Search is supposed to display everything that mentions a particular word, phrase, etc... but it’s a hit or miss if that actually happens. There’s no secret to being displayed in search other than using the phrases mooglemodels or mooglemeet, which using the tag and @ method should hopefully cover anyway.

The @ function should put your post in my activity feed, which is the first place I generally look when I check the blog(s) every day. Though this is generally reliable, there have been some cases when it has not. Again, there’s no secret to tagging the blog other than making sure you’re following it ( because sometimes the @ function bugs out if you’re not, I’ve had first hand experience with it ) and praying to whatever entity controls this site that it’s seen.

Of note: even if you tag/@ the blog, you post will not be seen for a few days. Both @mooglemeet and @mooglemodels run on a queue system to be courteous to the dash, so your post will simply end up at the back of the line. The ONLY exception is for @mooglemeet with time-sensitive events; they will be pushed to the front of the queue so their advertisement is seen in time.