Wow!  Thanks for all the feedback guys!!!  I'll try to address your concerns as best as I can!

@Lyn: Sounds like you have some articles posted to channels that no longer exist and that's what's tripping you up.  I called to see if I could help, but I got your voice mail.  Call me and we'll see what we can do to fix this!

@Mark: Just in case I wasn't clear, tags don't do anything for SEO anymore.  According to the research I did before I posted this article, the tags at the bottom of your AR blogs have been useless for SEO for about four or five years now.  Tags are only useful for organization now.  I hope that this article has helped you organize your blog! 

@Debbie:  I tried calling you this afternoon too.  I left a message on your voice mail, so give me a call and I'll help.  I know you have tons of tags, and I see that you have lots and lots of one-of's.  You can just add whatever tag you want to use for organization and create a link for that one.  You really want this to be a short list, a few bullet points of what you think people might want to see when they come to your blog.  In your case, I'd think you would want to make them as simple as "Hardwood Flooring", "Laminate Flooring", "'Green' Flooring", and "Flooring Guide".  I don't think you really need any location terms because you're dealing more with remodels than selling houses in specific neighborhoods.  Obviously, suit this to your taste.

@Thom:  I posted this in the "newbies" group on AR in hopes that I would catch people who weren't too far into their blogging coreer with us.  I'll see what I can do about getting this added to the F.A.Q.  

ActiveRain doesn't suggest what your tags should be when you're writing them but your browser can and sometimes will auto populate information, but I wouldn't count on it.  When you clear your cache (and you should every once in a while) then it won't make suggestions to populate your old tags anymore -- until you enter a tag again.  I think that may be the problem you're talking about in your second paragraph.  

@Eveyone:  I know this would have been really useful information years ago.  Unfortunately, I didn't realize that you could do this until about a month or two ago.  Just so you know, you can check your tags on your AR Blog by clicking on the "Tags" drop down menu on the right hand side of your blog, but no consumer sees that.  Log out of your profile and then visit your blog, you'll see what I mean.  If you delete some of the tags, be aware that they make 24 hours to disappear from your "Tags" drop down.  It's only there to help you find stuff on your own blog.

Remember, you don't need to delete the old tags on your blog.  Don't get so hung up on how you've been doing it.  You want to keep your list of links to be short for it to be effective.  This is to save your reader's time.  Just add whatever tag you want to have the important blogs show up by, then follow the steps above!  

@Anna, Andrew, and Amanda: You're very welcome!  I think I've got it all sketched out in the blog and in my comments, but let me know if you run into trouble!

@Brad:  Thanks for the feedback!  I'm glad this helped!