At the risk of being blasted by the forum faithful (take it easy on me folks), I respectfully disagree. At least partially.

I agree with the benefit of tagging as it relates to the visitor, and I mentioned this in my initial post, however, I am not convinced the general public is reading these things. Now hold on, I am fully aware of the leads that are generated through blogging, and especially the REW blogs, however, most folks reading our real estate blogs are other Realtors. This came home to me by reading the comments left in real estate blogs. You would be hard pressed to find non-Realtors commenting on the real estate blogs.

I agree that tagging needs to be done correctly for the occasional non-Realtor visitor, as these types of visitors are our bread-and-butter. However, I still think that tagging's greatest benefit is keeping a blog healthy in terms of SEO. Heck, the bread and butter visitor may never find the blog entry we want them to find if it is in supplemental results and not being ranked in the search engines.

Morgan, part of what's at play is your position. You are the Lance Armstrong of real estate. You have a team around you, and respect from the peloton. You simply need to draft and you win the race. Uh, the rest of us, welll, need some drugs (i.e., tagging to keep our entries indexed properly)!

Your latest Active Rain blog is a good example. It's perfect. Heck, you write a blog and everyone reads it, I write a blog and I hope that someone will find it!

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