Why are tags needed in wordpress?

Question

WordPress

Hello, I have a news site, I'm very interested in what "Tags" are and what they eat with.
Never touched this field. Does it help SEO optimization, news promotion?

Answer 1

Tags are needed for additional site navigation. Tags are needed to unite records on a common basis and display them on a separate page
. In addition to the fact that headings have a tree structure, but tags do not, there is no clear separation between them. In general, try to keep a post in only one category and be able to have multiple tags. For example, make the headings Health , Sports , Politics and tags Coronavirus , Olympics , Afghanistan , then the entry related to the category Sports can be about the Olympics and about Coronavirus
This practically does not affect SEO, in any case, search queries with the words Tag, Category or Category give very few results even for large publications.