Should I spend time on tags in my blog posts

A common question often asked is whether you should add tags to blog posts? Tags are keywords that can be added to posts to illustrate to the search engines what the post is all about. Similar to Meta data in websites these keywords should highlight key areas within the text that are of particular mention.

Last year Google announced that it no longer uses the keyword tag as a valuable SEO metric and here we can hear Matt Cutts discuss the issue further. In summary the tags are fairly disregarded in blogs as well as Google will more than likely be able to distinguish what your content is about from the text! Presuming it is written and structured well and contains the key phrases that will help in search engines.

Have a watch…its really interesting!