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  janeta1991 · Member · Jul 4, 2013 at 4:14 am

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  Even after reading the information on tags, I am not sure I understand them. Can you help? Why is it important to have them? How do I go about setting them up? I am a bit confused.
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  justpi · Member · Jul 4, 2013 at 8:01 am

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  It’s not important at all.

  a) Search engines:
  Tags are useless. Tags were and are abused, so search engines now pay attention to your actual content, not to your tags.

  b) WP “Topics” pages:
  If you add a category or a tag to a post, it will appear in the respective WP Topic page. (Note well: categories and tags are the same type of data. If you categorize a post under “poetry” or if you tag it “poetry”, it will appear in the WP “poetry” page. So you never add the same word or phrase as both a category and a tag.)

  c) Site navigation:
  Post categories are more essential than tags. As the Support doc says, categories are used for broad grouping of post topics. They help a visitor isolate all the posts that are filed under a certain category, if you have added the Categories widget.
  Post tags should be more specific keywords associated with the content of a particular post. (For example, a post filed under a “Books” category might be tagged with the names of the authors you’re discussing in that post.) Again they help a visitor isolate all the posts that have been tagged with the same tag, if you have added the Tag Cloud widget, but they are totally optional.
  The more tags you use in total, the less useful the Tag Cloud widget becomes, because it can only display up to 45 tags (while the Categories widget has no such limitation).
  You understand that both categories and tags are of very little use when you’ve only published a couple of posts. As far as the organization of your blog is concerned, you can forget about them, and start adding them later.