??? The Value of Tags ???

[jkgourmet]

We've had this discussion before. And I haven't a clue whether or not tags add any SEO value. I do believe they add a value for navigation for the reader.

But just to add fuel to the fire, these recent items came to my attention:

Yahoo drops the Meta Keyword Tag

Sorry, Yahoo, you do index the meta keyword tag

[Lynn Terry]

The Keyword Meta Tag is HTML code in the header of your web pages - which is different than WordPress tags used on blogs.

[jkgourmet]

Shows how much I know. Sorry if I caused further confusion.

[Lynn Terry]

No worries - I'm just now testing out WordPress tags and should have some data to share on that in the next 3-6 weeks.

[brad]

I try to put 3-5 tags on each Wordpress post and I've found that I do get a bunch of traffic to my tag pages, ie. "www.wigdetcentral.com/tag/blue-widgets/"

[DianaWalker]

I've been using tags on http://www.diana1.com for a few posts recently and if you do a Google Search for
Calli Tea
You'll see I'm at 3 and 4 for my http://www.diana2.com site which is a website not a blog (which has had high rankings for a long time now), and my www.diana1.com Wordpress site is moving up also. Then if you look at about position 25, you will see that the Google ranking mentions:
Even though it has been almost 13 years now since I sipped my first delicious cup of Sunrider Calli Tea, and enjoyed my first Sunrider NuPlus, ...
diana1.com/tag/free-samples-of-sunrider-calli-tea/ - Cached - Similar

So - you can see here where it has ..../tag/..... and that is the only time I have used that particular tag so far on any of my sites.

So it seems that there is significance placed on Wordpress tags.
I was getting confused between "keywords" and "tags" and the differences, still am not really clear...

I'll be interested to see how Lynn figures this out for us!

Diana