SEO + Multiple tags in the URL

Marketing & promotion
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Hey,

I realized that the URL could be a way more descriptive if I used multiple tags as subfolders for the URL. Is there a way to combine multiple tags in the URL?

Thanks

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Ghost doesn’t support using tags as part of the URL in routing except for the primary_tag. So there’s not an automated way to accomplish this.

If you really want your URLs to look like this, you’d need to set up the routing manually for each post and each index page.

Another option would be to make your primary tag something that contains the key words you’re trying to stuff into the URL. So instead of having a Europe tag and a Belgium tag, you’d have a descriptively-named tag with a europe-belgium tag as your primary tag, and route those posts to yoursite/europe-belgium/post-slug. (You could also have a separate Europe tag, to allow you to show everything tagged as being in Europe.)

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Hey Cathy, you are explaining something here that directly relates to a question I have. I have been reading online that having things in more than one “category” can really hurt SEO.

I noticed Ghost places TAGS also as the keywords in Schema and for this reason I have multiple tags on each article, actually exactly as you are explaining to do to this other person. My question is, should I be really concerned about his, is it fine for example have things a blog post that is say about 7 day Bangkok Travel Itinerary, and have it under the following tags:
Explore-Bangkok-Thailand
Explore-Thailand
Travel Itineraries

My reasoning for having multiple tags is for so that I can create collections of post under various tags that I can display in different locations. Some readers might be interested in just seeing a collection of travel itineraries for all locations, and some might just be wanting to see content for all of Thailand, or more specifically Bangkok, so most of my post have 3-4 tags.

Are these pages showing up on tag pages considered multiple pages of the same content? Would I want to use a canonical link, or does that only matter if I was trying to tag pages to rank. If I only care about the blog post ranking and not the tag pages, would this really matter or impact SEO?

Reference things like this
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/kc3c9r/how_do_you_handle_posts_that_fit_into_multiple/