Originally Posted by Jdoughs

Oh, and to answer the question, google does love tags, just as long as they aren't the same as your categories.

By pure definition of what a tag is, they would have to love them. It breaks the site down into relevant niches and links into relevant unique content about that theme or niche. And those said pages also link back to the tag, but also to other relevant tags to that post.

Its gold really.