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1. If I started a blog/website from scratch and I was the only person managing that site, I probably wouldn’t use tags at all. They are difficult to manage if you’re doing things by your self. I would have a “tag plan” in place too.

2. If I were to use tags, and I definitely have some cleaning up to do myself, I would make sure they are used for navigation purposes to humans visiting my websites. Ultimately answering the questions, “Does this tag provide value to my visitors?” Tags are a great way to take visitors to a page about a more specific topic related to what you’re writing about, which keeps visitors at your site longer. But, I only want search bots to see one way to a page, making sure I don’t confuse search engines or humans. So I would make sure a tag page about a topic is not indexed but followed by the bots, therefore using the noindex/follow tag. I know, complicated. That’s another reason not to use tags when you’re the only person managing a site or multiple sites.

I think that’s about it for now. Tags can be a long discussion and can be complicated but useful.

I am of the opinion that over tagging is actually totally counterproductive. Is there any evidence it is being measured and tracked along with everything else by the Big G?

I am keen to know as I suspect I might have to go back and look at few early posts to my blog.

Kind Regards,

Chris

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