Does having tags enabled on your forum help with SEO?

[Shortie]

One of the most used features on certain forum software such as Xenforo allows forum owners to turn tags on either for just staff members or for all of the community. In some forums I tend to see this active and in others I don't and it got me wondering, do the tags on forums help towards SEO?

Have you had any tags using the tagging system on a forum?

 

[Avery]

I wouldn't rely on tags for SEO purposes; I would rely on tags for organizational purposes.

Any benefit to SEO would be extra

 

[Heatman]

More than 90% of forum users don't make use of tags whenever they are creating their contents. In this regard, I don't think it does much for your SEO in any way, so I wouldn't pay much attention to it. Also, there are some forum softwares doesn't have the tag feature.

 

[cpvr]

It helps users discover pages that are similar to each other and it can help boast SEO somewhat, but I wouldn’t use tags that much.

If you’re concerned about navigation and things like that, then tags are the way to go. Similar threads would boast seo a lot more than tags would as interlinking pages helps.

This is apart of Technical SEO.