What Is the Difference Between Blog Categories and Tags?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

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🗓️ 22 October 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today's question comes from Darin, who has been building a blog and has a question about post metadata. What is the difference between categories and tags? Darin's site is http://mystartupchallenge.com/. The WordPress plugin for combatting spam is Growmap Anti Spambot (https://wordpress.org/plugins/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/). Share your advice with Darin on Twitter using #AskPat458. Do you have a question about blogging metadata? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Lynda.com. Try out all of Lynda.com's courses for free for seven days. Go http://lynda.com/AskPat to get started. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What's up, Ask Pat.
0:05.0	Ask Pat.com.
0:11.2	What's up everybody?
0:12.1	Pat Flynn here and thank you so much for joining me in episode 458 of Ask Pat.
0:16.7	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.1	We have a great question today from Darren.
0:22.1	Before we get to that, I want to thank today's sponsor, which is Linda.com.
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1:11.2	All right, here's today's question from Darren.
1:13.4	Hi, Pat.
1:14.1	Darren here from Midwest Missouri.
1:15.6	I have a question about keywords and tags in a WordPress block.
1:19.5	What is the difference between keywords and tags and are both used in SEO?
1:24.9	A little background.
1:26.6	For the past eight months, I've chronicled my efforts to launch a
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