Wordpress tags still relevant?

[mugatea]

About 10 years ago when I made my website using wordpress I would add tags to every post I wrote and would spam it with keywords like every noob does, just like I would do with meta keywords. I even had one of those tag clouds on my footer. Anyway, I havent used tags for years and when I did they were a bit spammy. So, do they still matter? Should I go back and 'clean up' my old post tags? I could noindex the tags if that helps? Or is it just not important enough?

 

[StephenSumner]

There good reasons why sometimes they are useful and that depends a little on how the site has been built. But if the tag pages serve no real purpose, you will have a bunch of extra pages and potentially dupe content that would be holding you back potentially. I generally tend to remove/avoid them unless there is a specific purpose for them.

 

[fisicx]

Bin the tags. No point in even having them on the site.

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

There good reasons why sometimes they are useful and that depends a little on how the site has been built. But if the tag pages serve no real purpose, you will have a bunch of extra pages and potentially dupe content that would be holding you back potentially. I generally tend to remove/avoid them unless there is a specific purpose for them.

What are those "specific purposes" you've found? Because I've found no modern use for them.

 

[Darren_Ssc]

What are those "specific purposes" you've found? Because I've found no modern use for them.

Tags can be useful for organizing content. if you have a lot of it, like sub-categories. They can become a mess though and need careful management regarding indexing for seo purposes.

 

[StephenSumner]

Why was my post deleted please Mods?

 

[Darren_Ssc]

Why was my post deleted please Mods?

Me too.

 

[fisicx]

Why was my post deleted please Mods?

Me too.

Because the post you quoted has been deleted.