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Tags for Your Blog Posts Here On Active Rain

By Dagny Eason

Real Estate Broker/Owner with Dagny's Real Estate

February 09, 2015 02:03 AM

Tags for Your Blog Posts Here On Active Rain

I just found out that my tags are too long-

"I'm not sure exactly what is considered "too long" for our system yet. I would suggest to make sure that tags are fewer than 10 characters. If you find yourself having trouble with even that, then maybe leave out the tags for now or leave out any spaces in your words. Please let me know if you experience this issue with shorter tags so that I can pass that information along to our tech team."

I wrote a post last week about ice damming. It was very time sensitive, because I was attaching the short url to an email I was sending out to a lot of people.

The blog post kept kicking out into Draft form, everytime I published it, and would also kick out my photos! I had been struggling for over 12 hours to get this straight.

Finally, my email went out on the time I had scheduled, and then the barrage of emails about why was the link sending us to sign up for Active Rain?

I called support, and they simply said they would create a ticket for it. I yelled - "NO!" The last time I created a ticket, it was 4-5 days before any response. UGH!

Now, I have gotten this response up above ....

Weren't we taught that "long tail keywords" are the best?

If you know more, please help me out here!

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TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.

Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN

Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

Good morning Dagny. I did not know that there were these stipulations on tags. Thanks for the heads up and very timely post.

Feb 09, 2015 05:42 PM

Joe Petrowsky

Mortgage Consultant, Right Trac Financial Group, Inc. NMLS # 2709 - Manchester, CT

Your Mortgage Consultant for Life

Good morning Dagny. What a great topic, not something I have been paying attention to, so thanks for the wake up call.

Feb 09, 2015 07:20 PM

James Dray

Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

I try to keep it simple and use the least amount of words to get the point across

Feb 09, 2015 07:51 PM

Kat Palmiotti

eXp Commercial, Referral Divison - Kalispell, MT

Helping your Montana dreams take root

I've never paid too much attention to the tags -- although evidently I should have been. I like Debbie's thought that they might not be needed at all; but I also think if I do use them, I'm going to have to keep it short.

Feb 09, 2015 08:02 PM

Susan Nealey

Coldwell Banker Realty - Annapolis, MD

No Pressure! Ever!

Well, this actually helped me a lot. I was stressing over those tags--I keep making up new ones every day. I am going to stop. I have had issues this week with AR, too. When I post my blog to my fb sites, someone elses picture shows up beside the post. I got quick responses from AR, but basically they cannot figure out why its happening. Hope it all gets corrrected soon.

Feb 09, 2015 08:44 PM

Dorie Dillard Austin TX

Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX

NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

Good morning Dagny,

Great topic..I like Susan Nealey have always stressed about the tags! I can see that is wasted energy spent. I've been getting the same thing if I post to FB, someone elses picture shows up besides my post! AR said they do not know and it wasn't happening on others..hummm...that's not true.

Feb 09, 2015 09:14 PM

Susan Nealey

Coldwell Banker Realty - Annapolis, MD

No Pressure! Ever!

Dorie Dillard, who shows up on your posts? Sharon Tara is always on mine and she even said others have told her the same thing, so we are not alone. AR finally told me not to use the links at the top of the page to post to my fb. I now have to post it myself manually. Sorry, if I hijacked this post....

Feb 09, 2015 09:17 PM

Lenn Harley

Lenn Harley, Homefinders.com, MD & VA Homes and Real Estate - Leesburg, VA

Real Estate Broker - Virginia & Maryland

I use tags of single words separated by a comma. Or, very short tags. I've never had them bounced back.

Feb 09, 2015 11:01 PM

Nicole Doty - Gilbert Real Estate Expert

Zion Realty - Gilbert, AZ

Broker/Owner of Zion Realty ZionRealtyAZ.com

I tried to use numbers in my tag for the years like 2014 and 2015 and it kicked my blog post out until I removed the numbers. Other than that I haven't had much issue with tags.

Feb 09, 2015 11:15 PM

Barbara Altieri

Better Homes and Gardens RE Shore and Country Properties - Shelton, CT

REALTOR-Fairfield County CT Homes/Condos For Sale

Dagny -- I have used tags the way Bob taught. Never had an issue. However, I have had what happened to you happen to me. Then it just went away. So I don't have an answer. Am interested in what support has to say definitively.

Feb 10, 2015 12:44 AM

Pamela Seley

West Coast Realty Division - Murrieta, CA

Residential Real Estate Agent serving SW RivCo CA

Good to know the problem is too long tags. I've had my posts not publish on occasion as well.

Feb 10, 2015 01:09 AM

Margaret Goss

@Properties - Winnetka, IL

Chicago's North Shore & Winnetka Real Estate

Maybe I don't understand this at all, but I thought tags were for our use only - to help us locate our posts. I didn't think they had any importance as far as SEO.

Feb 10, 2015 02:30 AM

Tammie White, Broker

Franklin Homes Realty LLC - Franklin, TN

Franklin TN Homes for Sale

Dagny, I believe tags are just for internal use and our outside blogs. You want to keep the tags short. For example, when I write a market report, I use the neighborhood name, market reports, home value. That's it. Separated by commas.

Feb 10, 2015 11:21 AM

Mark Don McInnes, Sandpoint-Idaho

Sandpoint Realty LLC - Sandpoint, ID

North Idaho Real Estate - 208-255.6227

Here is new information. I have been hearing long tail, long tail. I probably misunderstood and related that to Tags. Good post. Mark

Feb 11, 2015 09:17 AM

Jon Kolsky

Kolsky Realty & Management - Long Beach, CA

Licensed California Real Estate Broker

Dagny Eason ~ very interesting! I have always made new tags for each new post, & I always try and keep them short and sweet... With that said, I really don't have a great understanding about "tags" Hopefully I will lean a lot more by this post and the comments

Feb 13, 2015 02:36 AM

Mark Don McInnes, Sandpoint-Idaho

Sandpoint Realty LLC - Sandpoint, ID

North Idaho Real Estate - 208-255.6227

Hello Dagny, I have started using broken short tags from my longer ones. And only use a total of about 3 different no matter the subject. I was not having problems before but with comments to this blog sounded as though I was wasting my time doing more than that with tags. SEO not paying much attention any more to tags I guess. Thank you again for the post. mark

Feb 15, 2015 08:19 PM

Maria Gilda Racelis

Home Buyers Realty, LLC-Manchester, Bolton. Vernon,Ellington - Manchester, CT

Home Ownership is w/in Reach. We Make it Happen!

Hi Dagny: My tags are normally three to four words only. Hence, I never had a problem.

Feb 15, 2015 09:28 PM

Roger D. Mucci

Shaken...with a Twist 216.633.2092 - Euclid, OH

Lets shake things up at your home today!

Nothing surprises me "in the Rain".....on any given day, anything can happen.

Feb 15, 2015 11:26 PM

Jill Murty, Realtor - Orange County, CA

Movoto - Laguna Niguel, CA

Dagny Eason - It's terrible that AR invites were sent out in the email you so carefully crafted! The recipients think you did it and it puts you in the awful situation of having to explain. Yuck.

The support response was pretty unsatisfying. Hopefully, the come up with something better.

Feb 16, 2015 02:11 AM

Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties

Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN

The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

I try to keep mine short and it helps with finding posts I am trying to search. I didn't know it would kick it back to draft. This informatin needs to be shared by AR unless of course they had no idea.

Feb 17, 2015 11:46 PM