Re="tag" Question

[matiw]

Hello,

I own the site  I putted rel="tag" in categories and product links , its correct? There are a lot of categories and products , I wont get penalized right?

Just making sure to know if Im doing it right , thank you for help me

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Juana

I honestly haven't seen rel = tag being used much.

Here's the documentation on it. Here are examples of it being used on live sites.

My understanding of it through reading those, are it should only be used for links pointing to or relating to actual tags. Like /tag/ is in the URL etc.

I don't think a misuse will penalize you at all, but I'm not sure it will do anything either, unless they are actually tag pages or link.

Hope that helps!

-Dan

[mememax]

I think you're doing it right but:

• you should try to be consistent throughout the site. In your blog for example you dind't appended the rel=tag attribute to the links to your tags (try with the escotilla tag). You may use it everywhere or nowhere imo
• moreover, even if you did that right you won't be safe from any penalty, maybe you're safe with this possibl eissue but this fix won't save you from other possible issues you may have like dupe content, or shallow pages or heavy low quality bad linking (i don't know if it's your case, just listing a couple of them)

Having said that I've never used that kind of tag, I think that google is smart enough to recognize you navigation + categories + tags. If you build your site architecture correctly, this tag may help but you should be ok anyway.