Are Blog Tags Important To SEO?

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Are Blog Tags Important To SEO?

March 1, 2023 | 5:14 pm

Are Blog Tags Important To SEO?

March 1, 2023 | 5:14 pm

Are Blog Tags Important To SEO?

March 1, 2023 | 5:14 pm

Are Blog Tags Important To SEO?

March 1, 2023 | 5:14 pm
Ah yes, this age old question. For starters, if you would have asked me this question 10 years ago, my answer would have been an enthusiastic "yes." Flash forward to today's current digital marketing climate, and the correct response really depends on your specific business and its overall marketing goals.

Tags are useful for e-commerce websites, as it helps automatically categorize products and point customers to relevant items and services they may be interested in. They are also beneficial for internal linking purposes, and are something that most of my old school blogger and influencer clients insist upon.

But for the rest of us, my answer to the above question would be no. Hell no, in fact. Webmasters should do themselves a favor and avoid them entirely. In addition to wasting your crawl budget, it creates unnecessary pages that will compete against the other, more important landing pages on your website. (And I would bet a fresh $100 that the formatting and user experience of the tag page will be less than stellar, too.)

So there you have it – as far as SEO and digital marketing dos and don'ts, you can cross blog tags off your to-do list.
Ah yes, this age old question. For starters, if you would have asked me this question 10 years ago, my answer would have been an enthusiastic "yes." Flash forward to today's current digital marketing climate, and the correct response really depends on your specific business and its overall marketing goals.

Tags are useful for e-commerce websites, as it helps automatically categorize products and point customers to relevant items and services they may be interested in. They are also beneficial for internal linking purposes, and are something that most of my old school blogger and influencer clients insist upon.

But for the rest of us, my answer to the above question would be no. Hell no, in fact. Webmasters should do themselves a favor and avoid them entirely. In addition to wasting your crawl budget, it creates unnecessary pages that will compete against the other, more important landing pages on your website. (And I would bet a fresh $100 that the formatting and user experience of the tag page will be less than stellar, too.)

So there you have it – as far as SEO and digital marketing dos and don'ts, you can cross blog tags off your to-do list.
Ah yes, this age old question. For starters, if you would have asked me this question 10 years ago, my answer would have been an enthusiastic "yes." Flash forward to today's current digital marketing climate, and the correct response really depends on your specific business and its overall marketing goals.

Tags are useful for e-commerce websites, as it helps automatically categorize products and point customers to relevant items and services they may be interested in. They are also beneficial for internal linking purposes, and are something that most of my old school blogger and influencer clients insist upon.

But for the rest of us, my answer to the above question would be no. Hell no, in fact. Webmasters should do themselves a favor and avoid them entirely. In addition to wasting your crawl budget, it creates unnecessary pages that will compete against the other, more important landing pages on your website. (And I would bet a fresh $100 that the formatting and user experience of the tag page will be less than stellar, too.)

So there you have it – as far as SEO and digital marketing dos and don'ts, you can cross blog tags off your to-do list.
Ah yes, this age old question. For starters, if you would have asked me this question 10 years ago, my answer would have been an enthusiastic "yes." Flash forward to today's current digital marketing climate, and the correct response really depends on your specific business and its overall marketing goals.

Tags are useful for e-commerce websites, as it helps automatically categorize products and point customers to relevant items and services they may be interested in. They are also beneficial for internal linking purposes, and are something that most of my old school blogger and influencer clients insist upon.

But for the rest of us, my answer to the above question would be no. Hell no, in fact. Webmasters should do themselves a favor and avoid them entirely. In addition to wasting your crawl budget, it creates unnecessary pages that will compete against the other, more important landing pages on your website. (And I would bet a fresh $100 that the formatting and user experience of the tag page will be less than stellar, too.)

So there you have it – as far as SEO and digital marketing dos and don'ts, you can cross blog tags off your to-do list.