what is the difference between tags and keywords?

[superkevin]

Most article publishing websites and blogs like Hubpages let you tag your posts and articles with descriptive labels like "rugby" and "Australia."

And you've probably heard that you get traffic by using keywords, the words and phrases people type in to search the web with Google or other search engines.

what is the difference between tags and keywords? They're not the same thing, and they do not work the same way. Unfortunately, many article publishing sites conflate the two.

[RichardRoby]

Tags are self assigned labels that you can use to categorize the posts on your blog. Your tags can be anything. While keywords are used by search engine to find what your blog and your blog articles are about. Keywords are highly searched by users to get a proper ranking of your website in Google.

[sofyjohnson18]

I think that keyword is the word which is used to optimize the website while tags are HTML codes. Google doesn't use the Meta keyword tag to optimize websites.

[BettyJones]

Keywords are the main anchor of your website while tags are those which describe your keywords.

[RafaelHarp]

Tags are used to categorize the posts on blogs. Keywords are used by search engines to identify that what your sites article or blog is all about. Keyword is used for searching purposes in search engines.