Impact of deleting blog tags

  • laucocos

    (@laucocos)


    8 years ago

    I have decided to remove all blog tags from my posts with the intention of organizing all posts by categories alone. Is there any reason to retain these tags or should I delete them all as they are not in use?

    I may want to later convert some of these tags into categories at a later date but am not yet certain on this. Will this be an issue if I delete the tags for these posts i.e. it would have a 2 after the name as it would be considered a duplicate, such as /category/marketing-2

    I am also concerned about retaining these pages would have bad impact on SEO as Google doesn’t like pages with no function.

    I would really appreciate if you could offer any advice.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    There is no harm in deleting tags, especially if you’re no longer using them, I’d recommend it.

    The /category/marketing-2 issue is probably because you already have /tag/marketing as the two essentially share the same database table. If you were to delete the “marketing” tag, then you’d be able to create a clean “marketing” category without the -2.

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