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A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Idea's, 22
2007-12-18 15:20:00 Part 22 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from ญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญhow to attack the foreclosure topic to how to target specific prospect markets witquickie glossary posts. See how Real tors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas. 219 down, 146 ผ real estate blog content ideas left to go! 1. Focus on attracting sellers by covering topics a new home seller will face in the current market condition. See how the Wagner team wrote a series of posts that focused on attracting sellers by clearly outlining how sellers can compete against bank owned properties, desperate sellers and motivated sellers. These posts not only provide information on what kind of competition exists in the marketplace but also clear advice on what a seller can do to successfully compete against each type of seller. EXAMPLE: Selling Your Colorado Springs Home: How to Compete Against Bank Owned Properties Related Post... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Worth
Google is NOT the Evil Empire stealing content from real estate blogs
2007-12-17 04:01:00 I recently read a bunch of SEO conspiracy articles floating around the real estate blogosphere about how Google is "stealing" content, traffic, listings, clicks, leads, your first born child, etc. I even read one conspiracy theorist that actually suggested you forget about Google altogether because the Top Realtors in the country can't be found on the first page therefore, neither should YOU. I suppose it never occurred to this Realtor that the Top Realtors in the country have far more robust networks and far more dollars to throw at marketing than the average Realtor and therefore may not need the boost Google would give them. Now, for those of you that have thought about drinking this crazy Cool-Aid, let's consider what Google's role is and what it does for you, your website and your business and why you need to cater to Google to benefit from its services. Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blogs , Content
Top 5 On-page Search Engine Optimization Tips for Real Estate Blogs
2007-12-13 20:57:00 While I usually focus on bite sized SEO tips for your real estate blog, I thought that I’d compile a list of the 5 most important and effective ways to boost your search engine positioning in 30 days or less. Think you that dramatically changing your search engine positioning is impossible in 30 days? Take the case of Ann Cummings, www.newhampshiremainerealestate.com – I sat down with Ann and Bear (the man behind the Realtor) and went over following SEO strategies with them back in late October. As of December 1, Ann’s blog went from Nowhere’s-ville to #5 in Google for her keyword, “Portsmouth Condos.” In this post, I am going to focus entirely on things you can directly do to your blog rather than on outside factors like backlinking which can take more time to affect your search positioning. Read more » More About: Search Engine Optimization , Estate , Real Estate , Tips , Blogs
Top 5 On-page Search Engine Optimization Tips for Real Estate Blogs
2007-12-13 20:57:00 While I usually focus on bite sized SEO tips for your real estate blog, I thought that I’d compile a list of the 5 most important and effective ways to boost your search engine positioning in 30 days or less. Think you that dramatically changing your search engine positioning is impossible in 30 days? Take the case of Ann Cummings, www.newhampshiremainerealestate.com – I sat down with Ann and Bear (the man behind the Realtor) and went over following SEO strategies with them back in late October. As of December 1, Ann’s blog went from Nowhere’s-ville to #5 in Google for her keyword, “Portsmouth Condos.” In this post, I am going to focus entirely on things you can directly do to your blog rather than on outside factors like backlinking which can take more time to affect your search positioning. Read more » More About: Search Engine Optimization , Estate , Real Estate , Tips , Blogs
How to write a killer real estate blog about page
2007-12-10 18:59:00 The very first post you should post on your brand new real estate blog is without a doubt, your About page. Remember that old Donnie and Marie Osmond song, I’m A Little Bit Country, I’m A Little Bit Rock and Roll? Well, your About page needs to be of similar proportion- A Little Bit Resume, A Little Bit Personal Interest. Your About Page should be written in a warm and inviting tone that reads easily and is full of information about you, your passion for real estate, your accomplishments in the field and experience with buyers and sellers. Now, the trick is to do all this without sounding arrogant! So, let’s dissect a formula for writing your About Page that will work for you and your business. Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Write , Blog
How to write a killer real estate blog about page
2007-12-10 18:59:00 The very first post you should post on your brand new real estate blog is without a doubt, your About page. Remember that old Donnie and Marie Osmond song, I’m A Little Bit Country, I’m A Little Bit Rock and Roll? Well, your About page needs to be of similar proportion- A Little Bit Resume, A Little Bit Personal Interest. Your About Page should be written in a warm and inviting tone that reads easily and is full of information about you, your passion for real estate, your accomplishments in the field and experience with buyers and sellers. Now, the trick is to do all this without sounding arrogant! So, let’s dissect a formula for writing your About Page that will work for you and your business. Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Write , Blog
The Real Estate Blogger's Guide to SEO
2007-11-28 22:09:00 Need a quick and concise reference for search engine optimizing your real estate blog from a respected source? Check out the illustrious Aaron Wall of SEO Book's Blogger's Guide to SEO. This is a terific resource all real estate bloggers should bookmark, refer back to and most of all, LIVE BY. For those of you that don't think SEOing your real estate blog is necessary, just take a look at those bloggers that site on top of the search engines for prime keywords like Laurie Manny, Marc Blasi, Brian Brady and Marti Gellens. These bloggers follow the guidelines detailed below and as a consequence, rake in traffic and leads daily. Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real
The Real Estate Blogger's Guide to SEO
2007-11-28 22:09:00 Need a quick and concise reference for search engine optimizing your real estate blog from a respected source? Check out the illustrious Aaron Wall of SEO Book's Blogger's Guide to SEO. This is a terific resource all real estate bloggers should bookmark, refer back to and most of all, LIVE BY. For those of you that don't think SEOing your real estate blog is necessary, just take a look at those bloggers that site on top of the search engines for prime keywords like Laurie Manny, Marc Blasi, Brian Brady and Marti Gellens. These bloggers follow the guidelines detailed below and as a consequence, rake in traffic and leads daily. Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real
Happy Thanksgiving
2007-11-21 22:49:00 On Thanksgiving Day, families gather together, prayers are said, and thanks are given. Everyone prepares their big dinners, with roasted turkey, and dressing. The first Thanksgiving took place in New England and was celebrated by the Pilgrim settlers who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620. The Pilgrims had struggled for so long on this voyage with little food and much sickness taking over. In the spring, the Indians had helped the Pilgrims plant corn, and in the autumn, the first crop was harvested. Governor William Bradford demanded that three days were dedicated solely to prayer and thanks. The Pilgrims planned a huge feast and invited many of the Indians to join them. This was the beginning of Thanksgiving that spread like a wildfire throughout other colonies over the years. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day to be held on the last Thursday in November each yea... More About: Blog Marketing , Happy
Happy Thanksgiving
2007-11-21 22:49:00 On Thanksgiving Day, families gather together, prayers are said, and thanks are given. Everyone prepares their big dinners, with roasted turkey, and dressing. The first Thanksgiving took place in New England and was celebrated by the Pilgrim settlers who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620. The Pilgrims had struggled for so long on this voyage with little food and much sickness taking over. In the spring, the Indians had helped the Pilgrims plant corn, and in the autumn, the first crop was harvested. Governor William Bradford demanded that three days were dedicated solely to prayer and thanks. The Pilgrims planned a huge feast and invited many of the Indians to join them. This was the beginning of Thanksgiving that spread like a wildfire throughout other colonies over the years. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day to be held on the last Thursday in November each yea... More About: Blog Marketing , Happy , Hank
A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 21
2007-11-16 17:12:00 Part 19 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from & shy;&s hy;gearing some of your writing to college students, thanksgiving, and writing more details about your neighborhoods. See how Realtors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas. 209 down, 156 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go! Read more » More About: Ideas , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Blog Marketing
A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 21
2007-11-16 17:12:00 Part 19 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from & shy;&s hy;gearing some of your writing to college students, thanksgiving, and writing more details about your neighborhoods. See how Realtors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas. 209 down, 156 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go! Read more » More About: Ideas , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Blog Marketing
Blogging to your own drummer will hurt you: the curse of improvisational re
2007-11-08 16:54:00 There is a formula to successful business blogging, but so often I see Realtors straying from it and basically, blogging to their own drummer with highly personal rants and cutesy posts. My first questions to these Realtors is “do you sit on top of the search engines for your prime keywords?” and “do you have quality consumer traffic and leads.” Typically, the answers to those simple questions are a big fat “NO.” So, if blogging is all about building business, if your real estate blog isn’t generating it, then you need to re-evaluate your blogging approach. Improv isational blogging simply doesn’t work. I recently read an article by Brian Clark over at CopyBlogger comparing improvisational jazz to the improvisational blogger. I don’t know about you, but I am a huge fan of Jazz and LOVE Miles Davis. I consider Kind of Blue one of the greatest albums of all time. However, my man Miles went through... More About: Curse , Blogging , Hurt , Drummer
How to Build Quality Backlinks for your Real Estate Blog, Part 2
2007-11-05 20:48:00 Why Build Links? Build Authority with Search Engines: As previously stated in the first installment in this series, Search Engines value links back to your site and use them to rate the value of your site based on those “votes.” Gain Direct Traffic: Users often come across links to your real estate blog on other sites which results in direct referred traffic back to your real estate blog. Increase Visibility, Branding and Influence: With more places for web visitors to see links to your real estate blog, you become an authority in your field and expand your sphere of influence to gain more viral links back to your site. Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Backlinks , Blog , Real
How to Build Quality Backlinks for your Real Estate Blog, Part 1
2007-10-31 21:57:00 What are Backlinks ? Backlinks, links from other sites to your real estate blog, help to improve your credibility with search engines, online visibility, content reach and traffic. Therefore, building quality backlinks is just as important to the health and well being of your real estate blog as the content that you write. So, let’s take a good hard look at not only why and how search engines value backlinks but now you go about building quality backlinks through an easy to follow link campaign. Why do search engines measure backlinks? In simple terms, search engines consider each backlink a “vote’ for your site. It is a way for Google to determine the overall authority and popularity of your site. Tool: See how many backlinks your real estate blog has Read also: Ultimate Guide to Building Backlinks Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Real
Happy Halloween from the RSS Pieces Team
2007-10-31 19:07:00 Halloween also known as All Hollow’s Eve is a time for costumes, candy, Jack-O-Lanterns, bon fires, parties, and much more. Every year on October 31, children and adults all around the world dress up in their cute and ugly costumes. It is a great time to have safe fun and pretend to be someone or something you’re not for one night. The origin of Halloween began with the Celtic festival of Samhain, long before Christianity. November 1 was considered by them to be the ‘day of death’, because the leaves began to wilt and fall, temperatures began to drop, and it started to get darker outside sooner than normal. Also believed was that on October 31, Samhain, the lord of death, gathered the spirits of all who died that year. These spirits were confined to an animal’s body for the year as punishment for their evil deeds, and on the eve of October 31 they were released and given permission to return to their previous home to visit ... More About: Blog Marketing , Team , Happy , Halloween , Pieces
Google Slaps Real Estate Blogs in Latest PageRank Update
2007-10-29 19:07:00 About two weeks ago, you may have noticed your site or ones you visit regularly declining in the search results for prime terms. It was the result of what has now come to be known as the Google Slap. That was a precursor to what many real estate blogs saw happen when PageRank updated the other day and their blogs fell a point or two. Now, fear not, this was not a slap just to real estate, many a Technorati 100 blog felt the same slap. Just look at Search Engine Guide which fell from a 7 to a 5, SERoundtable which fell from a 7 to a 6, Forbes which fell from a 7 to a 5, and the 9rules which 8 to a 6. Read on to see a sample list of real estate blogs that fell in PageRank. Read also: Matt Cutts Confirms Paid Links and Google PageRank Update Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Pagerank , Blogs
How to get your real estate blog noticed: why being bold is key to traffic
2007-10-28 11:45:00 I’m penning this post with the understanding that you probably haven’t recently sustained a closed head injury and do, indeed, understand that tens of thousands of other Real tors, mortgage brokers and stagers are out there writing furiously on their real estate blogs about the very same subject and trying to reach the very same people you are. So, how exactly do you set your blog apart from those hacks and capture the minds and hearts of your readers? You MUST be bold, brazen, controversial, insightful, funny and most importantly, USEFUL to build loyal traffic for your real estate blog. So, let’s learn the tips to doing just that. “If you don’t mind being just another blog among millions, just keep talking about the same thing. But if you want to make the Technorati Top 1,000 (I did it in five months, and got to 11,000 subscribers and 1 million page views a month in that period), you have to find a way to get noticed. You have to stick o... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Traffic , Blog
God Bless Our Friends in Southern California
2007-10-23 11:02:00 View Larger Map (you can also click, grab and zoom the map above!) Map courtesy of The Daily News of Los Angeles Our thoughts and prayers are with all the real estate bloggers, friends and families we have in the Southern Calif ornia area. We ask all our readers to pray for the families and homes of Brian Brady, Roberta Murphy, Jeff Turner, the entire staff of 1 Park Place and all the other families affected by the spreading wildfires in Malibu, Del Mar, San Diego, etc. While we have heard reports that most of the families mentioned have been evacuated to safety and will not have access to the Internet, please place your thoughts, prayers or updates in the comments below so they can read them once they can return to their homes. Read also: Deadly Fires Force Mass Evacuations in Southern California Southern California Wildfires and San Diego County - The Gellens Team, La Jolla CA What Every Del Mar Resident Needs to know about Wildfire Evacuation - Brian Brady, De... More About: Friends
The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed
2007-10-21 19:27:00 We believe that when you write a post on our system, you solely own the copyright to that content. If you ever decide to leave your RSS Pieces real estate blog, we will provide you with an RSS feed of all your posts so you can easily move your content to another platform. We believe in providing free blogging and SEO training to the entire real estate blogging community. You can find our free tutorials online at www.rsspieces.com anytime or call our toll free number and talk to one of our support staff at 866-403-9626 between 9-5 EST whether you are a client or not and receive free training on how to improve your blog writing, SEO and marketing. We believe in providing affordable solutions that have a clear ROI because we believe that a Real tor’s or Mortgage Broker’s money needs to stay in their pocket. Our individual blogs range between $299 – $699 depending n the level of template customization and our community blogs cost less than $999. We o... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Blog Marketing
Can your real estate blog rank for your prime keywords within months of goi
2007-10-20 12:50:00 While there is a place for Long Tail search terms (terms related to your prime search terms that will individually cause less search hits but collectively increase your search hits), your bread and butter for driving search traffic to your site needs to be the Short Tail terms (prime keywords like “real estate” or “loans” or “homes” or “condos” and “your farm area”). Read also: Long tail, short tail and coat tail searches Read more » More About: Estate , Real Estate , Rank , Blog , Keywords
RSS Pieces Appoints Scott Lockhart as New President
2007-10-17 10:39:00 Former RE/MAX Greater Atlanta and Trader Publishing Executive Brings Deep Domain Expertise CAPE CORAL, FL., September 14, 2007— RSS Pieces , a provider of top-rated real estate blogging products, today announced it has appointed Scott Lockhart to the position of President , effective September 1, 2007. Mr. Lockhart, a seasoned executive with deep experience in technology solutions for real estate, has held executive level positions at RE/MAX Greater Atlanta, Trader Publishing Company (now Dominion Enterprises), and Gill Group. “I am very excited about this opportunity and in what I can see RSS Pieces achieving in the real estate industry and beyond. We are building a company culture with a consistently higher standard of quality which truly understands what is important to agents and the industry,” said Scott Lockhart the newly appointed President. “With competition for REALTOR®’s marketing dollars at an all time high I believe that RSS Pieces&r... More About: Resident
Social Bookmarking to be or not to be
2007-10-15 16:05:00 What is Social Bookmarking ? Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to submit their favorite websites/posts to a public web site. Users may also save another users bookmark to their own personal collection, and subscribe to a list of multiple other categories and public bookmarks. To begin, you would need to register with one or choose two or three social bookmarking sites. Here are the top 5 recommended sites: · &nb sp; Digg · &nb sp; Technorati · &nb sp; Reddit · &nb sp; News Vine · &nb sp; Del.icio.us Read more » More About: Blog Marketing , Social Bookmarking
Sellsius Announces 2007 Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers
2007-10-09 16:27:00 We would like to congratulate Ines Hegedus-Garcia of Miamism and Laurie Manny of Long Beach Real Estate Home on being named by Sellsius as part of the Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers ! To find out who else made the list check out the post over at Sellsius: Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers - 2007 Edition Read more » More About: Blog Marketing
A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 20
2007-10-08 18:02:00 Part 20 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from & shy;&s hy;covering National issues such as cancer, to the obvious for the month of October, HALLOWEEN. See how Real tors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas. 200 down, 165 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go! Read more » More About: Ideas , Estate , Real Estate , Blog
Real Estate Blog SEO Tip of the Week: Sitemaps
2007-10-04 20:25:00 Google LOVES sitemaps! Every site should have a sitemap, especially the big ones with lots of pages. A sitemap is a complete resource guide for readers and search engines including a list and description of each page on a site. If your homepage lands a search result and you have a sitemap on your site and it was indexed then each individual page within your site will automatically be indexed for you. How wonderful is that? The use of a sitemap doesn’t guarantee that a page will be indexed immediately after you hit that save button, but the use of a sitemap provides hints for web crawlers to find new and changed content on your site. Think about this, a reader comes to your page looking for information and begins to get very frustrated not being able to find anything, what do they do? They leave! Three, that’s the average number of clicks a reader will follow until they leave your page when looking for information. Having a sitemap ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Week , Real
Why Should the Realtors BLOG?
2007-10-01 15:55:00 On Friday I attended BLOGORLANDO and inspired I learned so much. One important thing I learned was that my instincts about Blog ging and Real Estate are right on track. This is a powerful tool for Realtors . As I listened to Shel Israel (Naked Conversations), Tom Biro, Jake McKee, Chris Heuer and the many others; my head was spinning how to implement Social Media in our Real Estate business. Toby Bloomberg wrote in response to my post on ActiveRain The un-conference – An Improvisation In Learning which pulled all my thoughts from BLOGORLANDO into how Real Estate Professionals can take advantage of the dramatic changes happening in business today. Read more »
Blog Orlando - The unconference
2007-09-29 15:49:00 BLOG ORLANDO - The unconference Yesterday I attended BLOG ORLANDO at Rollins College. I found out about this wonderful event from Toby Bloomberg of Atlanta, GA and the Diva Market BLOG. I meet Toby because of the Laurie Manny Challenge.... Toby -- Thank you! Wow!!!! What a day! And to think had Laurie Manny not challenged me to reach outside of my comfort zone I would have never known about this wonderful event in my own backyard! There are several communities throughout the country starting to run these gatherings! The day started at 8am with registration and we finished around 5:30 with a full schedule of events! So if your community has one, get involved! Not only did I learn during the sessions but from the interactions between sessions. They proudly called this an unconference. What is an unconference? Well it was about the structure of the day. The presenters did not present as much... More About: Blog , Orlando
How To Avoid Going To The Google Sandbox for Keyword Stuffing
2007-09-26 22:48:00 KEYWORD STUFFING? Go Directly to Jail Googl e Jail that is... Do you know the difference between writing keyword rich text and what the search engines perceive to be keyword stuffing or keyword density? According to Wikipedia: Keyword stuffing is considered to be an unethical search engine optimization (SEO) technique. Keyword stuffing occurs when a web page is loaded with keywords in the meta tags or in content. Including your main keywords in your title, text and tags is acceptable and advised. One 3 word keyword rich phrase for about every 50 words of text is about the limit. Keywords used at the top of the post are given a higher value by the search engines. It is advisable to target several keywords in any given post, mix it up, but keep it interesting. Writing keyword rich text is not that difficult, if you are writing about your local area, go ahead and mention it several times, put it in your title and in your tags; 3 to 7% is re... More About: Blog Marketing , Avoid
How to Dress Your Real Estate Blog for Success!
More articles from this author:2007-09-22 04:13:00 Real Estate Professionals often find building their Real Estate BLOG as an overwhelming process; there are so many posts to be written, where does one start? If you look at some established Real Estate BLOGs you will find similarities. Today we are going to discuss your Real Estate BLOG as if you were building your fashion wardrobe. Ladies, (I know that at this point we have lost all the men) you are probably thinking “has Colleen gone over the deep end?” but let us talk about this for a moment. Surprisingly, there are a lot of similarities between a fashion wardrobe and the basic elements of your Real Estate BLOG. According to Bravo’s TV show Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style, there are 10 Basic Elements to any Woman’s wardrobe. They include: Basic Black Dress Trench Coat Classic Dress Pants White Shirt Jeans ... More About: Blog , Success 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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