Can't find my comic via Search function

69Michi 2017-08-24 16:18:35 UTC #1

I don't know why but when I tried to find my comic (https://tapas.io/series/Rebirth/) via the Search function, my comic doesn't show up. (The keyword I put in is "rebirth")

Only when I put in the entire name of my comic ":Rebirth" with the ":" did my comic show up. My friend tried and it was the same for them, my comic doesn't show up if you simply search "Rebirth." Meanwhile there are other comic with longer title that includes the word "rebirth" (or heck, the novels don't even have rebirth in their titles but they still show up?) and they show up just fine.

I want to know if I'm missing something in the system or what. The majority of the people that would look up my comic probably won't remember to put ":" in front of "rebirth" so it's going to be hard for them to be able to find my comic on tapas ;v;

shazzbaa 2017-08-24 19:12:08 UTC #2

These are both slightly hacky thoughts but,

If you changed the title to : Rebirth with a space in between the colon and the word, would that make a difference? I'm wondering if the system is recognising the punctuation as a piece of the word rather than something extraneous because of that

and two: it'd probably be a good idea to put "rebirth" in your series tags! Not the episode tags, the series ones, in the same place where you update your series banner and description. It might not show up at the top of the list, but at least it'd show up?

Silerna 2017-08-24 19:16:57 UTC #3

You need to click on see all I think. The most populair comics/novels with similair titles show up first. When you wanna see all results yours might be between them

DiegoPalacios 2017-08-24 19:31:57 UTC #4

Don`t rely only in one keyword. Use all the words related to your comic. For example:
rebirth, comic, (the genre of your comic), aliens(if it involves aliens),something related to the story.

69Michi 2017-08-24 20:53:13 UTC #5

HOH! Putting “Rebirth” in the series tag actually makes it appears in the list now. (After pressing on “See all”) I assume the system is only just now caching the series under the “rebirth” tag that is why it needs a little scrolling to find among the series under the same tag. It’s surprising that the search function isn’t searching for a series’ title but the series tag. (Maybe the “:” does make a difference to the title but who know)

Thank you for the help guys!