WordPress allows you to assign keywords, or tags, to your posts. Tags enable you to apply more keywords to your post rather than bloating your list of Categories. But you should not use a heavy hand with tags, as this can become too cumbersome for your users to search through your tags. And especially if you are allowing Google and other search engines to index your tags.
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In the battle of Categories Vs Tags, who will win?
The winner will always be Categories! And to the victor go the spoils. And what spoils might Victor receive? Relevant SEO traffic and that makes you, the site owner (Victor?), the real winner!