Aardvark – Why tags in social media are so important

Can someone tell me why ‘tags’ in social media are so important? Is it mainly for SEO? Is it up to a blogger to add tags? How do tags help me as a user?

- Meg C. F / Washington, DC

Tags are most closely associate with blog postings and pages. It’s imperative that if you are blogging to get search engine traffic, that you tag your articles/posts. They are handy for the user in that, most blogs, provide the ability for users to browse tags by page.

For example: http://blog.spidergourmet.com/tag/aardvark/

You can see the answers I have provided to aardvark users that I tagged appropriately. They function similarly to categories, the real difference is in how people use them.