Cheers!
J.

I always suggest associating each post with a single category, and this can be limiting, so I sometimes suggest using tags to further associate posts with subject matters.

I would recommend putting some thought into what tags you use, so that they are as well organised as possible.

I think this can help with both internal nav and SEO.

So in terms of your question, for me it depends on how your categorisation works.

In your case, I’d be inclined to agree with you and favour usability over SEO when it came to tags – after all your site is entirely about rsi, therefore you’d be tagging every post with rsi which doesn’t make sense to me.

Your content makes it very easy for the search engines to figure out the context of your site, and your site is well organised with categories, so I’d wonder if you need tags at all.

Certainly the tags your using at the moment mostly just double up on the categories, so what I would look at is whether you need a secondary level of labelling and use tags for that.

Hope that helps!

Can I pick your brain on tags a bit further? I tend to use tags so readers can find similar posts. I don’t really use them for SEO. I suppose I rate internal navigation over SEO. But this may be flawed thinking. I’ve never investigated but have wondered about it. If I have a blog about rsi should I add an rsi tag to every single post? (ie that’d be no good for internal nav but good for SEO)

Thanks
J.