When you ask questions, you're not the only one benefitting from the answers but you're also helping many others who don't yet have the courage to ask.

Tags are helpful to others for finding information contained in your articles. There are however different types of tags such as content tags and meta tags.

A content tag is kind of like a keyword; the difference is keywords are used within titles and content so that places like Google can pick up your articles to be searched on Google and content tags are usually used within a websites search function.

I'm not sure Wealthy Affiliate uses tag words in this way but for example the search box at the top of Wealthy Affiliate could theoretically be used to pull up all articles, discussion etc. that contain that tag word across all of Wealthy Affiliate content (including all members content).

So to sum that up---You write a blog entry on Wealthy Affiliate about "checklist," you add "checklist" as a tag when publishing it, someone then goes to the search box at the top of Wealthy Affiliate and searches the word "checklist," your article should come up as one of the results to choose from.

Meta tags are a little different-you shouldn't worry about those yet-other than what Kyle tells you to do in the training-those would be within the description html-the seo plugin Kyle has us activate when setting up our first website achieves the meta information that would otherwise be hard to do without knowing html.

Update: And one other thing about tags of any kind: like keywords/articles they do take time to be found and picked up (indexed) by the search engines whether an internal one or external one.

Well done on facing your fears with reference tags that are just keywords really when I publish a post I put the tags in which are the relevant keyword for the post the tag box is on the right hand side of the post or page in WordPress

Barry