Is there any benefit to adding tags for words used in post?

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  greyrocket · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 12:36 pm

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  Hi
  Is there any benefit to adding tags for words and phrases already used in the post text?
  I would have thought that they were not used as the search engine would find them in the post text.
  Any help appreciated.
  Jeff

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  justpi · Member · Apr 22, 2013 at 12:44 pm

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  You are right: tagging was greatly abused, so search engines nowadays pay attention to your content rather than your tags. Here’s Matt Cutts of Google:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A96yDPqa2rs

  The only minor benefit is that when you tag a post, it will appear in the respective wordpress.com “Topic” page. But post categories work the same way.