Can I safely delete unused tags??

[naturalsociety]

Can I safely delete unused tags, ones with 0 posts connected to them?

Thanks,

• Mike

[GastonRiera]

Hi Mike,

As long as you are referring to Wordpress, yes it's safe to remove tags that have no content nor are being used.

Best of luck.
Gaston

[naturalsociety]

Thanks for the reply! But now it seems that pages for those tags still exist, just with no content in them.

Update: Now the empty page is simply showing as a 404 "Uh-Oh...Page not found!"

Hrmm. Where do I go from here? Create 410's? I didn't know any more steps needed to be taken when deleting tag pages with 0 content connected to those tags.

• Mike

[GastonRiera]

Hi Mike,

I wouldnt worry too much about this.

Having old pages or removed pages returning 404s is completely fine by Google. Eventually, they will drop those pages from the index.
If you are worried about those pages and/or they are being shown in SERPs and want to remove those urls faster you can use the URL removal tool from Search Console. Sadly, you have to manually submit each url and you cannot do it in bulk.

Hope ir help,
Best luck.
Gaston