Tagging for Search Engine Optimization

For those n00bs out there, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, something that many bloggers and companies do to make sure that their site is on the top of a google (or similar) search of a certain topic.  To do this, some people hire SEO Professionals to make sure that their site is out there and gets the most hits in a category.  Most low-level bloggers just do this by putting an obscene amount of tags on a given post in the hopes that if there are enough, then some random guy will happen to fall upon your site by a very far-fetched tag.  Let me give an example of a “far-fetched” tag.  Someone is writing a post on how to garden effectively.  In a ten page article, they mention some random person, let’s say “James Smith” who, let’s say, is a famous gardening guru for HGTV.  The author would then go in a tagging frenzy of anything to do with how-to television and get way off topic.  This I feel is wrong.

I feel this is wrong but I also still feel the need to tag.  I feel that it is bad if I don’t and that I may be leaving something behind–not doing something I should be doing.  (Why don’t I try to say “feel” one more time?  Feel.  Now back to the post.)  So I try to be a reasonable tagger and if you are a blogger, I think you should too.  Plus, are tags really going to help out SEOptimize your blog unless you get 1,000+ uniques/month?

Just a thought.