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title: "Adding new tags: naming and duplicates"
description: "When you add new tags, two things can cause problems on your site: near-duplicate tags and tags that break an existing naming pattern. **Reuse existing…"
url: "https://homerunner.io/docs/what-should-i-watch-out-for-when-adding-new-tags-to-avoid-issues/"
updated: "2026-10-26"
category: PMS connections and sync
---

# Adding new tags: naming and duplicates

When you add new tags, two things can cause problems on your site: near-duplicate tags and tags that break an existing naming pattern.

**Reuse existing tags exactly.** A tag goes public as soon as a single listing carries it. A typo or a near-variant therefore becomes its own separate filter. This is how accounts end up with "Pool" and "Pools" side by side in the same filter list. Before you create a tag, check whether one already exists and reuse it exactly, rather than spelling it slightly differently.

**Follow the naming pattern of your current tags.** If your site displays a family of tags in a special format (for example, distance tags rendering as "Stratton Mountain: 6.1 mi"), that presentation depends on the tag name matching the established pattern. A new tag in the same family that is named differently still works as a filter, but may display raw instead of formatted.

Still stuck? [Contact the HomeRunner team](https://homerunner.io/contact/) with your site address and what you tried, and we take it from there.