Are lots of wordpress tags hurting my SEO?

[KateV]

When I started my blog 4 years ago and didn't know what I was doing, I set it up to be organized using tags (no categories).

I have around 20 tags and around 250 articles. Each blog article typically has 2-4 tags associated with it. There is a lot of topic overlap and putting each post in only one category wouldn't work.

I have been no indexing, do follow my tag pages because they are just a list of post titles, but I'm wondering if the whole situation is hurting my SEO.

On my homepage I have a sidebar menu/list of all the tags so I have link juice going to no indexed (but dofollow) pages.

Reducing the number of tags would be bad for user experience because people who were looking for info on a specific topic wouldn't be as easily able to find what they want.

Ideas?

[Solvari]

As long as you only use these tags to improve the usability of your site and don't stuff all those tags in your titles / descriptions, I don't see why it would hurt your SEO.

Also make sure the tags you use are actually related to the content and or not just a set of keywords you'd like to rank for, although I don't get the idea that you are doing so.