Hello friends. I would like to ask you a question that has been on my mind for a long time and to which I could not find an answer. As can be understood from the title, should Tags be indexed? Does whether they should be indexed or not change from site to site, meaning from project to project? I would be very happy if you share what you know about this topic with me.
Tags must definitely be indexed. The important point here is that you show the care you demonstrate while doing on-page SEO on a post separately within the tags.
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As long as you use the tags correctly and don’t overdo it, I think they should be indexed too.
You can actually view tags as categories. So, if you are constantly revolving around the same words, you can ensure they get indexed and even perform studies on them, but if you enter 5 different tags for each topic and never mention them in your subsequent posts, I don’t think their indexing means anything.
@ReddApple That’s a good question; because many people don’t know how and for what purpose tags are used.
In blog systems, we use *categories *and *tags *to classify posts. Tags allow us to do a second type of classification outside of categories.
Let me explain with an example: You are writing a blog called “News from the Automotive World.” You chose brands as categories; posts belonging to each brand can be followed in their own category. On the other hand, you also want to separate vehicles as commercial and passenger. Or you think that news about luxury class vehicles should also be viewable together. You can do these second and third types of categorization using tags. You write a news piece about the BMW 7 series under the “BMW” category and give “passenger” and “luxury” as tags. Thus, those who want BMW news go to the BMW category, and those who want to read luxury class vehicle news click on the luxury tag or follow it via RSS feed.
I don’t think there is any harm in indexing them. Or rather, if you are indexing categories, it makes no sense not to index tags. Just remember that tags are also a kind of category; do not use tags that will not be used for more than one post, barring exceptions.
When it comes to tagging, we stuff everything related to the article into the tags. E.g.: seo, seo expert, what is seo, who is seo, how to do seo, etc. etc., like a ton of tags. But I notice on Milliyet’s site there are at most 3-4 tags, and those are like 1-word categories, just like you explained above.
In that case, instead of stuffing too many tags, it makes more sense to think of them like categories and use 3-4 tags.
It is necessary to properly optimize tags using Yoast.
The prevailing view in the SEO community is that the number of tags should be proportional to the length of the text. Like 1-2 for a 100-word article, 3-4 for 300 words… I don’t find this meaningful. Instead, I recommend the following:
- The tags you use must definitely appear within the text.
- Other articles should be written with the same tag in the future.
- They should not have names exactly identical to categories or other pages on the site.
- It works in your favor if you use the tags in the first paragraph of the article (if article summaries are shown on tag pages, this provides an advantage in searches)
- You should not create tags that are very close in meaning and cause unnecessary clutter. If you made a tag called “SEO prices”, don’t wear yourself out deriving things like “how much does SEO cost”.
When you apply the above, a situation requiring too many tags doesn’t really arise.
Thank you for the answers, friends. Very informative answers. It should be used as a common decision but shouldn’t be exaggerated.
Yes, you need to remove that tick, and I also recommend changing the “Archives” section according to your site’s content. For example, for a video site, “Videos” would be appropriate; also, in my opinion, the correct usage is “%%term_title%% Videos”; the rest is, in my view, repetitive and unnecessary parameters that could lead to spam. The site name should not appear in every tag.