Is it bad for SEO to add too many tags for a blog post?

Hi,

Is it bad for search engine optmization if I add too many tags for a blog post? Is there anything that one should take note while adding tags for a blog post?

Thanks.

 

It's the same with any text content on a page really, you run the risk of keyword stuffing if you have a huge list of tags. When a search engine crawler visits your site, they take the tags into account when determining any important keywords on a page. Personally I only use 2 or 3 tags per article, but some people may use more.

 

Good question! I have often wondered this as well. I usually list about 6 or so and not sure if that is too many or not. If there are any other opinions out there I'd love to hear them!

 

I have nofollowed my Tags on my Wordpress site. Many reasons why i have done this but yeah, i'll be happy i did this 2 years down the line.

 

if you use tags on your blog, then use canonical url to instruct google which one of your post is the original entry

 

not really but much better if you just label it.

 

tags are good bot shoud not be in excess... like 5-6 are better but 7 is high

 

I usually use less than 10 tags per blog post,
If you use more than that then it can be considered as keyword stuffing

 

make 'em 5 max. play it safe.

 

Hi,

After reading these comments, I decided to reduce the number of tags I have per post. Thanks.

 

it will just dilute the impact of each individual tag if you see what I mean.

 

In my view, it is bad.

Bcoz, everybody know fresh content gived good importance and duplicate content will be penalized.

When we add multiple tags for a blogpost, each tag becomes a page and it recognizes as a individual page and considers as duplicate content by search engines.

So, it is good to use minimum tags for blogposts.

 

I read tags worked a while back, not any more. They do nothing anymore for seo purposes (not included in the algorithm).
And they should only be used so that the user/visitor can navigate through the site effectively.

 

Good question! I have often wondered this as well. I usually list about 6 or so and not sure if that is too many or not.

 

fine answer......

 

Many top IM gurus are talking about "tags" on their blogs, they say that tags are not effective now, instead of tags add some anchor texts in your post or pages..

 

I have never thought it mattered, as long as the keywords used in the tags where actually in the post

 

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You can use many tags but all the tages would not treat as valid so better use 3-4 tags for each post if you too many tages search engine will give valu only for few so there is chance to get mis your main tag

 

Meta Tags are a Key strategy to Optimizing a website and individual web pages for the search engines, especially the "title tag". The "title tag" is what Search Engines use to determine what a site is about. In this blog post we will also look at the description, keywords and robots tag.

A Meta Tag is invisible to your visitors, but along with other Meta information may be useful to search engines to derive a brief description of your website. This information is what you will find if you do a search of your own website through a popular search engine. The Meta tag is added through the use of html language.


Title Tag

This is the dominant on-site SEO element. Now having said this, this does NOT mean you should stuff all your major keywords into a title tag.

A common mistake to avoid is putting too many keywords into the title. There are two reasons for this: the search engines might interpret that as "keyword stuffing," a practice that is frowned upon by search engines, and give the web page a low ranking.

In addition, putting too many keywords takes importance and weight away from the most relevant ones.To do SEO well, you want to make sure you optimize your title tag for one, maybe two keyword phrases.


Description Tag

This fits well with the title tag as both of these are the HTML elements that show on the search engine results pages. The description tag should contain your main keyword phrase, but should still be readable and interesting to visitors. Tell them why the page is exactly what they're looking for.

Spamming this tag with all your keywords will only push people away from your search engine listing.


Keywords Tag

If you MUST use the keywords meta tag, then use it carefully, and remember that many competing SEOs will look at this first to see what keywords you're targeting for your page.

Put other keywords you couldn't fit naturally into your page content that are still relevant and part of your page's theme, and keep them limited. Even deciding to put no keywords meta tag on your page will not hurt the SEO for your page.


Robots Tag

One other meta tag worth mentioning is the robots tag. This lets you specify that a particular page should NOT be indexed by a search engine. To keep spiders out, simply add this text between your head tags on each page you don't want indexed. The format is shown below (click on the picture if you want to copy and past the HTML for your own use):

You do not need to use variations of the meta robots tag to help your pages get indexed. They are unnecessary. By default, a crawler will try to index all your web pages and will try to follow links from one page to another.

Most major search engines support the meta robots tag. However, the robots.txt convention of blocking indexing is more efficient, as you don't need to add tags to each and every page. If you use do a robots.txt file to block indexing, there is no need to also use meta robots tags.