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Christian Real Estate Network BlogChristian Real Estate Network BlogReal estate news, advice, and insight, with a special emphasis on real estate specific marketing and SEO techniques for budding real estate marketers. Our passion is to help RE agents be more successful. Articles
2007 Real Trends Conference
2007-05-04 21:45:00 I was fortunate enough to be invited by Ben Clark of Zillow this morning to the final sessions of the Real Trend s Conference. The last session was a panel discussion on lead generation that included Pete Flint the CEO of Trulia. The thing that struck me the most was the fact that so many real ... More About: Ends , Ferenc
How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog ? 5. Official Blog Launch!
2007-05-02 17:52:00 We’re almost there! Make sure you have these 6 things in order before you get ready to launch your blog. Write at least 3-4 posts before you launch. People are visiting your blog because they want to read what you’ve wrote… you don’t want to leave a bad impression, you want to create loyal ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Series , Blog , Start
How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog — 4. Getting Ready to Launch
2007-04-30 21:42:00 ____________________ Ok. So, by now you should have a blogging platform picked out, a web address for your blog, a title, and a short “About me” page. If not, read through the last 3 posts in the series for instructions. Now, we will focus on some pre-launch items. These are the types of things that you’ll probably want to have done before the official launch of your local real estate blog. Add your “About me” page. Most templated blogs will have a place for this. If not, you can simply write an actual blog post about yourself, and link to it from the home page. This should include a picture, and basic info. Make sure to list plenty of contact information as this will be one of the primary ways that people can contact you. I recommend purchasing your own domain for the blog. Better yet, if you already have a real estate website, try to incorporate the blog into the website. My favorite way to do this is to create a directory off of your domain... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Start , Local
How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog ? 3. What is Your Target?
2007-04-27 19:11:00 ____________________ This is probably one of the most important decisions you will make about your new blog. Who, What & Where do you want to target? Since this is a series on how to start a “Local” real estate blog, we should probably go over some strategies concerning that. WHERE are you going to target?? This ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Series , Blog , Start
How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog ? 2. Choose Your Platform
2007-04-27 00:56:00 Ok… time to get started. I’m going to lay out a few basic options for you here: You definitely have a few choices, but we will lay out few of the most common. If you are planning on following along with this series to learn how to start a successful real estate blog, I ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Series , Blog , Start
How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog ? 1. Introduction
2007-04-26 22:26:00 ____________________ This is something that?s been on my mind for a long time? For the real estate professional that wants to gain an online presence, but doesn?t know where to start? blogging is the vehicle. I?m going to give you a crash course on how to start your own localized real estate blog. It ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Series , Blog , Start
SEO Quick Tip of the Day ?> #20 ?>Is Your Site Visible?
2007-04-25 19:23:00 _____________________ Is your website visible to the search engines? This is an obvious question, but you’d be surprised at how many people I’ve seen make this mistake. It’s a shame… they hire someone, or spend alot of time themselves on a website only to get on the phone with me and discover that all their work ... More About: Site , Quick , Visi , The D , Visible
Digg.com Works! But For How Long???
2007-04-24 17:35:00 _____________________ Despite all of the controversy surrounding Digg , it can still be a great way to drive some traffic. Case in point: we recently had a story perform pretty well on Digg, and it drove quite alot of traffic to the site. I realize that 25 diggs is really nothing compared to many of ... More About: Reviews , Real Estate Marketing , Works , Long
A Fair Warning About Christianrealestateagents.com
2007-04-23 17:31:00 I don’t usually like to write posts like this that paint other companies in a negative light, but sometimes it’s necessary to point things out for the safety of others, and for good conscience sake. There is a website called christianrealestateagents.com that has been around for a while now. They are a site ... More About: Fair , Chris , Warning , State , Real
Urgent Update ? Google Now Offering Property Search Within The Search Resul
2007-04-19 19:09:00 Hold the phones!!! Google just took a radical step into the real estate arena by offering a property search tool right within their search engine results pages for real estate related searches! Here is a screen shot: This is huge! I’m extremely interested to see the kind of press that this generates over the next ... More About: Property , Search , With , Update
Who, What, When, Where, Why & HOW To Conduct a Killer Interview
2007-04-19 18:37:00 _______________________ Conducting local interviews to post on your blog or website is one of the best ways to generate new customers. Who will you interview, What will you talk about, When will you schedule it, Where will you conduct it, Why is it important, and HOW will you attract more customers? _______________________ I certainly don’t claim to be an ... More About: Blogging , Real Estate Marketing , Interview , Hat
HousingMaps.com ? Keeps on Truckin?
2007-04-18 23:05:00 I haven’t heard much about Housing Maps.com recently… If you’re not aware, it is a Google maps mashup that takes real estate listings from all of the most popular cities on Craigslist, and plots them on the map. The listings that have pictures also include them in the short drop down description. It’s a pretty neat little ... More About: Real Estate Marketing , Keep , Sing
HitTail.com ? Still One of the Best SEO Tools Out There
2007-04-17 20:00:00 If you read this blog every once in a while, you have probably heard of Hittail.com, a free service that allows you to discover “long tail” keywords, thus allowing you to optimize for those words, and drive more traffic to your site. I wrote about hittail back in November of last year when it ... More About: Tools , Reviews , Tool , Out There , Best
Top 10 Internet Marketing Scams
2007-04-16 16:45:00 ____________________________________ I’m getting so sick of honest people getting ripped off, that I thought I’d write a post on some of the most common internet marketing scams out there. ____________________________________ 1. “We’ll Submit Your Website to Hundreds of Search Engines!” – Bad idea. This is one of the worst internet marketing scams. First of all, there ... More About: Marketing , Internet , Internet Marketing , Scams , Mark
Friday Fun Post
2007-04-13 21:44:00 _________________ Going to Paris? ________________________________________ How do you get there again? ________________________________________ Better bring a bathing suit… Tags: fun, google maps, google, swimming More About: Fun , Post , Friday , Frida
SEO Quick Tip of the Day ?> #19 ?> Banner Exchanges Are Dead
2007-04-13 19:10:00 Here is Today?s Tip: _______________________________________ Remember Banner Exchange s?? Maybe you are one of the few that still uses them… for that, I’m sorry. There are tons of other ways to drive traffic. Here are the reasons why banner exchanges are dead: They draw traffic away from your site. You never know what pages your banners will be placed ... More About: Change , Quick , Dead
Re/Max LeadStreet Statistics
2007-04-13 19:08:00 As a follow up to my post on the Remax.com website, here are some stats that I found interesting about Re/Max’s LeadStreet program: Tags: remax, re/max, idx, real estate marketing, mls listings More About: Leads , Statistics , Tree , Stat
Remax.com ? Quietly Providing Nationwide MLS Listings
2007-04-12 17:46:00 Tell me if I’m off in left field here but… I don’t read much about Remax.com in the blogging world. Of course Re/Max is well known in traditional media. I even see their television commercials now and then. But no one seems to be talking about their website. I’ve been having some talks lately with a ... More About: Listings , Nation , List , Wide , Sting
Real Estate Videos ? The Good, The Bad, The?
2007-04-11 07:33:00 Since we are at the dawn of the online real estate video, I thought I’d do a few reviews… pointing out the best and worst attributes of each video. And hopefully, you can learn some useful tidbits that will help you when it comes time to create your own real estate videos. I’m posting all ... More About: Video , Videos , Estate , Real Estate , State
SEO Quick Tip of the Day ?> #18
2007-04-09 21:04:00 Here is Today’s Tip: _______________________________________ An always controversial way to get links: Buy them. This is pretty straight forward… you decide what kinds of sites you want linking to you, and you go about purchasing the links. Most of the sites that offer text links are very detailed in their offerings. Most listings will ... More About: Quick , The D
The Top 10 Most Common SEO Mistakes
2007-04-05 10:08:00 These are some of the biggest mistakes I have seen people make when trying to optimize their websites to rank well in the search engines… 1. Bad titles. Titles are literally the first thing that search engine spiders see when they look at your website, and often your customers too. They are ... More About: Top 10 , Take , Common , Mist , Most
New Yahoo! Real Estate Forclosure Center
2007-04-05 00:48:00 Reatlytrac.com and Yahoo ! Real Estate have joined forces to offer the newly redesigned Yahoo! Real Estate Foreclosure Cent er. This new service provides: 1. online search for foreclosures 2. analysis of trends in the foreclosure market 3. education about buying foreclosure properties As the current real estate market slows, foreclosures are on the rise and ... More About: State
Who wouldn?t want to work for Google?
2007-04-03 18:09:00 Google: This year?s FORTUNE #1 Best Company to Work For in America With its stock at $483, this midsized company of about 6,500 employees receives 1,300 resumes every day. So why does everyone want to work for Google? Here are just a few of the perks Google employees enjoy: Engineers spend 20% of ... More About: Google , Want , Would , Googl
SEO Quick Tip of the Day ?> #17
2007-04-02 21:11:00 Here is Today’s Tip: _______________________________________ Teach yourself to use a very basic html editor like frontpage or dreamweaver. I’m embarrassed to admit it… but I use frontpage for alot of things. I just make the changes to alot of my websites and save them straight to the server. It works great for small ... More About: Quick , The D
SEO Quick Tip of the Day ?> #16
2007-03-30 02:55:00 Here is Today’s Tip: _______________________________________ A popular term in the SEO industry is Link Baiting. It is the act of trying trying to get other websites to link to yours through various means. It could be anything from a popular story, a contest on your website, a controversial topic… anything that will encourage other people to link ... More About: Quick , The D
Link Away! the tag has been removed
2007-03-29 08:46:00 I just decided to remove the <-nofollow-> tag from all of the links in comments on this blog after reading this article from Andy Beard. After pondering… it makes alot of sense. Shouldn’t we be encouraging people to post comments? Letting their links be indexed is a great incentive! I don’t know what ... More About: Link , Move , Away , Been , Has Been
Is Your Website Mobile Web Compatible???
2007-03-26 21:54:00 I’ve come across some interesting articles lately about mobile websites. It is actually a blossoming industry at the moment, and supposedly there will be some 300 million people by 2010 that will be using mobile phones and PDA’s. Have you been to your local cell phone shop lately? It’s hard to find ... More About: Mobile , Website , Comp , Site , Webs
SEO Quick Tip of the Day ?> #15
2007-03-21 08:23:00 Here is Today’s Tip: ________________________________________ Try to steer away from reciprocal linking… It is soooo 2004. There is plenty of evidence to show that reciprocal links have been discounted in recent months by search engines, and may even get you penalized. In the eyes of the search engines, they want to see natural linking practices. This ... More About: Quick , The D
An Interview with GooTube.net founder: Roldan Aquino
2007-03-20 17:23:00 Well… unfortunately, Inman news beat me to the punch, by just a few days!!! But I’m still going to post this. It’s an interview with Roldan (Dan) Aquino, the founder of GooTube .net, a fairly new mashup combining real estate video with google maps. Here it is… When did you found GooTube.net? I started GooTube ... More About: Inter , Founder , Interview , With
Is Creating Creative Content a Completely Contrived Curse of Crazy Conspira
More articles from this author:2007-03-19 16:35:00 At the risk of stepping on a couple of toes, I’m going to post a quote from a comment that was made recently in a real estate community website. I was in an argument about reciprocal linking, and the commenter with the opposing view had this to say: “Let’s not go down the road that ... More About: Creative , Curse , Comp , Crazy , Creating 1, 2, 3, 4 |
