The Insanity of Blogger’s Tagging System: Commas, No Spaces, and the Final Comma Trap

 

Tags are supposed to make blogging easier. They’re supposed to help you organize your content, make it searchable, and give your readers a way to navigate through your posts. But on Blogger, the tagging system — which they call “labels” — is so bizarrely designed that it often feels like it was created to frustrate users instead of helping them. The problem isn’t just the character limit (which I’ve ranted about already). It’s the way Blogger forces you to enter tags: with commas, no spaces allowed, and an absurd rule that you must put a comma at the very end or else none of your tags will show up. It’s pure insanity.

Let’s break this down. On most platforms, tags are simple. You type them out, and the system either separates them automatically by space or gives you a neat little box for each tag. On YouTube, Instagram, or WordPress, for example, you can add tags like “music,” “rock,” “indie,” and “Keane” without thinking twice. Blogger, however, makes it unnecessarily complicated. It demands that you separate tags with commas — but if you accidentally leave a space after the comma, suddenly your tag won’t register properly. That means “rock, indie” doesn’t give you two tags, it gives you one messed-up tag that doesn’t work at all.

This restriction forces bloggers to format tags in unnatural, ugly ways. Instead of typing “music discussion,” you have to write “musicdiscussion” or risk the system treating it as two separate tags. It kills readability, looks messy, and takes away from the whole point of tagging in the first place. Tags should be clean, accessible, and intuitive — not weirdly coded riddles you have to decode every single time you post.

And then, to make matters worse, Blogger throws in one final trap: you must put a comma at the very end of your last tag, or none of your tags will appear. Imagine spending time carefully crafting the perfect set of tags, double-checking your character count, only to realize after posting that you forgot to add that last little comma — and now your post has zero tags. It’s infuriating. A single, tiny formatting error wipes out the entire tagging system. No other modern platform makes something this basic so complicated.

For a music blog like mine, where tags are crucial to organizing posts by band, genre, decade, and theme, this system is a nightmare. If I’m writing about Keane, I want to tag “Keane,” “British rock,” “indie pop,” and “song meaning.” On Blogger, I have to worry about whether I added commas correctly, whether I avoided spaces, and whether I remembered the final comma. It feels less like blogging and more like coding in a broken language.

The truth is, Blogger’s tagging system is outdated and unnecessary. In 2025, there’s no reason for a platform to be this finicky about something so basic. Technology has moved on. Other platforms have figured out simple, user-friendly tagging interfaces that don’t require weird hacks or rules. Blogger, meanwhile, seems stuck in the past, punishing its users with nonsense formatting traps.

Tags should be a tool, not a hurdle. They should encourage bloggers to organize their content fully and accurately, not discourage them from even bothering. But Blogger’s system does the opposite. It makes tags a source of stress. It makes them feel like a gamble. And honestly, it makes the platform feel ancient compared to its competitors.

At the end of the day, Blogger’s tagging system isn’t just outdated — it’s broken. Forcing users to comma-separate tags with no spaces, then requiring a final comma or else none of the tags show, is completely illogical. It’s the kind of system that should have been fixed years ago. Until Blogger decides to modernize it, creators will be stuck playing by these absurd rules, and tags will remain more of a hassle than a help.