This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Syed in Kerala, India, who writes:
“Should we use tags for blog posts? Do blog tags help SEO?”
Thanks for the awesome question, Syed!
I get this a lot, especially when speaking at influencer and blogging conferences.
The answer, in almost every case, is no. Do not use blog tags.
There is likely no need if you’ve done the work to create user-friendly categories and subcategories.
Before we dig into why, here is the one exception to using blog tags – but it’s not for SEO purposes.
