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A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 5
2007-04-07 15:08:00 <h2><img width="200" height="237" align="left" alt="ideas_1.jpg" src="http://www.rsspieces.com/m/blog s/a/ideas_1.jpg" /></h2> <p>Part 5 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from homeowners insurance and natural disasters to blogging listings and local business news. Learn how to create linkable resource posts that give background on your town while offering up quality sources for additional information that children can use for school papers and adults can reference in times of need. See how Realtors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas. 50 down, 314 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go!</p> <p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 04/07/a-year-s-worth-of-real-estate-blog- ideas-5#more2159">Read more »</a> More About: Ideas , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Idea
New features
2007-04-07 05:22:00 <p>You may have noticed that the backend of the blog recently changed. The most obvious change is the way that the backend has been rearranged to give you more space to see your post when you write them. Today we are proud to announce that we have added a new menu option called <strong>Leads</strong>.&n bsp; If you log in, you will notice that it gives you access to your RSS to email subscribers and a historical view of CMA requests. We are in the process of adding other lead tools and welcome any comments or suggestions that you may have.</p> <div class='extrafields'> </div> More About: Features , Feature , Feat
WHAT WE'VE been up to
2007-04-06 23:56:00 <p>RSS Pieces has been a bit quiet on the real estate blog front recently and with good reason. With new hires including Ron Hamilton, Brian Buckett and David Hunsucker joining our ever growing development team, continued development of the <a href="http://www.realespace.com/&quo t;>REAL E SPACE</a> technologies, our YouTube viral video campaign "The Office," a full redesign of the RSS Pieces blog and large projects like a feature rich social network and a high impact mapping mashup on our plate, we needed a break from the blog. However, today marks the roll out of our new and improved look along with a solid committment to fresh, relevant and controversial real estate content. What can you expect? A free blogging education center called Blog Univeristy where you'll find full video tutorials on all aspects of blogging, photo taking, image editing, SEO and video making along with new written tutorials an... More About: Hat , Been
New features
2007-04-02 05:22:00 <p>You may have noticed that the backend of the blog recently changed. The most obvious change is the way that the backend has been rearranged to give you more space to see your post when you write them. Today we are proud to announce that we have added a new menu option called <strong>Leads</strong>.&n bsp; If you log in, you will notice that it gives you access to your RSS to email subscribers and a historical view of CMA requests. We are in the process of adding other lead tools and welcome any comments or suggestions that you may have.</p> <div class='extrafields'> </div> More About: Features , Feature , Feat
Google drops blogs. Are you a victim?
2007-04-01 17:50:00 <p>Last night, google rolled out a massive algorithm update which included a correction to the ways in which it handles blog indexing. As many of you may know by now, any blog under a Page Rank 6 was dropped from Googl e 's primary index. The real estate world was hit hard with major players like CondoDomain, Sellsius, RainCity and even RSS Pieces falling out of the Google search results. Read on to find out if your blog was hit and how you can correct the situation.</p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 04/01/google-drops-blogs-are-you-a-victim #more2086">Read more »</a> More About: Blogs , Blog , Logs
A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 4
2007-03-31 23:35:00 <p>Part 4 in this compendium of real estate blog ideas is chock full of ideas that are designed to spark participation and engage readers emotionally like taxes, politics and blog wars. Learn the etiquette of starting a feud and staying above the fray to drive in new traffic and keep it coming back. See how Realtors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas. 30 down, 324 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go!</p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 03/31/a-year-s-worth-of-real-estate-blog- ideas-4#more2076">Read more »</a> More About: Ideas , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Idea
A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 3
2007-03-30 22:40:00 <p>Part 3 in this month long series covers real estate blog ideas from establishing yourself as a local expert to building authority as a problem solver. Learn the ins and outs of starting a meme to the value of gossipy posts that keep visitors coming back time and again. See how Realtors across the real estate blogospheres are giving content a unique spin with these 10 wild and wacky ideas. 30 down, 334 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go!</p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 03/30/a-year-s-worth-of-real-estate-blog- ideas-3#more2066">Read more »</a> More About: Ideas , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Idea
A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 2
2007-03-30 01:21:00 <p>Part 2 in this huge series covers real estate blog ideas from humor to fear, myth busting to secret telling. See how Realtors across the real estate blogospheres are giving content a unique spin with these 10 wild and wacky ideas. 20 down, 344 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go.</p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 03/29/a-year-s-worth-of-real-estate-blog- ideas-2#more2058">Read more »</a> More About: Ideas , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Idea
A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, I
2007-03-29 00:14:00 Think you can’t come up with new real estate blog content everyday? Well, just in case your blogging brain ever goes blank, here is a year’s worth of content ideasn in just over one month. That’s right, folks, 364 ¼ topics for real estate bloggers to plunder with plenty of great examples from Realtors that have already had success with the ideas. For the sake of space, I will break this post up into digestible chunks of about 10 ideas at a time. ... Read more! More About: Ideas , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Idea
Real E Space: T Minus 7
2007-03-25 03:57:00 Just in case you missed the subtle announcement on the X Broker's blog, Real E Space is counting down the days until their Founders Banquet on April 3rd in Dallas where it plans to raise millions in it's first round of financing. For those of you that haven't been through the process of raising dollars for your "BABY," tune into the X Broker for an online chronicle of how the project is progressing and preparing for it's financing rounds. ... Read more! More About: Pace
Ultimate guide to real estate blog copyrighting
2007-03-23 16:06:00 When is comes to online copyrights, I see a lot of real estate bloggers breaking the law by using copyrighted images and sometimes flat out plagiarizing content. If you intend to become a respect voice in the industry, you need to be aware of what you can use and what you can’t. You also need to keep on top of who is infringing upon your own copyrighted material. So, here is a quick guide to how to keep your real estate blog above board and out of hot water. ... Read more! More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Guide , State
Is your SEO charging you too much?
2007-03-11 20:46:00 I have a confession to make. I have worked for a company that charged tens of thousands of dollars to SEO Fortune 500 websites and has taken little known ecommerce companies to the summit of Google with white hat SEO. But, I am here to tell you, most real estate blogs and websites do not need professional SEO help. Real SEO is an intensive process that costs an arm and a leg. Find out how to SEO your real estate blog or website on a shoestring budget. ... Read more! More About: Your , Much , Charging , Char
How to get banned by Google
2007-03-10 00:05:00 I love redirects, our developers love redirects, heck the majority of the web development community couldn’t live without them. They make life easy and allow you to redirect traffic going to various domains you might own back to a single website. That being said, redirects also can be misused and abused. A growing trend with black hat SEOs is that they use redirects to hijack a domain that has a higher page rank and make Googl e and other engines think all the backlinks the hijacked site has are actually yours. ... Read more! More About: How To , Anne , Banned
Inman Bloggers Conference
2007-03-05 03:03:00 Just in case you somehow missed the announcement on Inman or RainCity, get ready for a blogging industry event on March 5th. Noah Rosenblatt, Founder of UrbanDigs.com, Joseph Ferrara, Co-Founder, Sellsius Real Estate Blog , Ardell DellaLoggia, Real Estate Agent/ searchingseattle.com Super Blogger and little old me come together for an Inman teleconference on Putting Personlity online. Be there or be square! An Exclusive Inman News Subscriber Benefit! Monday, March 5, 2007 11 a.m. Pacific / 2 p.m. Eastern Blogging for Business: Putting Your Personality Online Hosted & Moderated by Inman News Managing Editor, Jessica Swesey More About: Bloggers , Logger
Almost Famous: how to create viral video
2007-03-05 01:08:00 We all know YouTube as the playground for the bored and procrastinating masses of under appreciated office workers. But did you know that YouTube is also the Mecca of viral advertising for the young turks that have learned to game it for their own benefit? 2.8 million clicks, hundreds of mainstream media stories and network television interviews can't be wrong. Viral video was able to catapult an aspiring actress into infamy in less than 48 hours by staging one of YouTube's most viewed videos of a "bride" hacking off her hair right before the big day. Think you have the cajones to add YouTube to your advertising arsenal? Find out if you can stomach what it takes to be a viral video vixen, with this 5 step program. ... Read more! More About: Video , How To , Famous , Most
How to embed YouTube Videos in your blog
2007-03-04 03:07:00 YouTube is hot and it has tons of local videos that could punch up your blog posts. So, just incase, you don’t yet know how to embed those cool videos into your blog, here’s the skinny: ... Read more! More About: Video , Videos , Youtube , How To
Drive local traffic with reviews and interviews
2007-02-25 18:23:00 <p>If there is one thing you can count on to spark a localized viral or word of mouth campaign for your real estate blog it is an interview or a review of a local business. Why? It&r squo;s simple. People love to see their name, their business or their picture in print. So, appeal to a local business owner’s ego and schedule and interview. Be sure to get the most out of your interview by sending the interviewee an email with a link to the reveiw review. This will help you to build a name for yourself as a local business proponent and before long you will be a hit among local businesses. Many times, a business will actually post the review/interview on their walls and people who eat there will see it and visit your site for more recommendations.</p> <p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 02/25/drive-local-traffic-with-reviews-an d-i... More About: Views , Reviews , Interviews , Traffic , Inter
Re-inventing the real estate blog with listings
2007-02-23 17:09:00 <p>You know the blog. The one with every cool bell and whistle, the one you love to visit and hate to leave. The blog that is perfect in every way except for that one annoying flaw… it takes an eternity to load. And… wait for it… when you really think about it, all those cool bells and whistles are completely useless to the real estate market. Hey, it happens to best of us. We think, wow, this <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/" ;>MyBlog Log</a> plugin is cool and <a href="http://wwwl.meebo.com/index-en .html">Meebo</a> is neat and videos and podcasts are a must and oh yeah, <a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a /home">Feedburner</a> and tag clouds would look great right over here… Basically, the list just goes on and on until your blog has picked up some serious wait when loading, looks cluttered to the naked eye and most impo... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Listings , With
Guide to a successful real estate blog launch
2007-02-19 19:21:00 <p>OK, so you have a blog, but are you launching it with bang or a pop? Your real estate blog deserves the very best. I mean you put your blood, sweat and tears into each article, so you should send it off into the blogosphere with as much fan fare as you can muster. I've been providing this quick checklist to our clients for months now, but why keep it under wraps, there are plenty of other bloggers that could benefit from it! So, here's my Ultimate Guide to Launching Your Real Estate Blog .</p> <div align="center"> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 02/19/guide-to-a-successful-real-estate-b log-launch#more1159">Read more »</a> More About: Real Estate , Success
Out of the Box Spam Hits MyBlogLog
2007-02-18 23:28:00 <p>Just like every other social network, <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com" >MyBlog Log</a> is not immune to its fair share of spam. Why, just this morning, I had an invitation to co-author another blog from MyBlogLog. And what to my wondering browser doth appear… a message from the author of <a href="http://www.blogmemes.be/" >BlogMemes.be</a>, a Belgian spam site – and I thought they just made great chocolate! I inadvertently clicked the link and next thing you know, I am a co-author of a spam site. Viola. My inbox quickly fills with messages from other irate MyBlogLog members, all of which have also fallen pray to the evil prank. </p> <p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 02/18/out-of-the-box-spam-hits-mybloglog# more1149">Read more »</a> More About: Spam , Hits , Out of the box
Canonicalization: getting it right
2007-02-17 18:59:00 <p>Now that you have a basic understanding of <a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 01/28/canonicalization-part-1-what-s-kill ing-your-website" target="_blank" title="Cano n icalization Part 1">canonicalization</a> let’s see how it relates to your website and blog. How many of you have a website at http://www.yoursite.com and a blog at http://blog.yoursite.com? This difference in subdomains has an effect that is similar to canonicalization. Because of the different subdomains between these two urls and because your blog is likely updated more frequently than your website, search engines will crawl the blog and index it better than the website. When you consider that 8 out of 10 visitors never go much further than the page they land on you can see how this could affect your website traffic. A common scenario is that your blog will pull new traffic, but the website itself rarely sees any of... More About: Noni , Cali , Right
HTML Validation: the hidden key to SEO
2007-02-16 17:24:00 <p>How do you know if the code on your site is written properly? How many of you have ever made a typo in a post or posted some bad grammar or a spelling mistake? Well, developers do the same thing. And sometimes they don’t clean up their mistakes because they feel that if it displays in the browser no one will know and it must be alright. Not so! These mistakes, called “Vali dation Errors” are devastating to your site's ability to be searched by search engines and displayed uniformly across various browsers like Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari, etc.</p> <p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 02/16/html-validation-the-hidden-key-to-s eo#more1127">Read more »</a> More About: Hidden , Html , Dati
What seperates a blog from a website?
2007-02-13 15:47:00 <p><img width="153" height="200" align="left" src="http://www.rsspieces.com/m/blog s/a/blogging.jpg" alt="blogging.jpg" />I often get asked, what are the differences between a blog and website. There are four primary things a blog does inherently that a website simply won't. These features allow a blog to market itself to search engines, spread your content across the web to attract new readers, provide an easy way for you to add new content regularly and most importantly, offer a way for readers to interact on the site.</p> <p> <div class='extrafields'> </div><a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 02/13/what-seperates-a-blog-from-a-websit e#more1071">Read more »</a> More About: Website , Blog , Site , What , Webs
Using Celebrity to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
2007-02-11 01:38:00 <p>The sad fact is, American’s love gossip and the juicy dish on how the other half lives. For example, compare and contrast the news coverage surrounding the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith, a Playboy Paymate and personal train wreck vs. Saddam Hussein, the architect of the Iraqi genocide and planned assassination of former President, George Bush Sr. Over the past few days we have been inundated with main stream media reports and conjecture about Anna Nicole Smith’s tragic demise from a supposed drug overdose. Meanwhile, back on the landscape of world politics… when former dictator, Saddam Hussein has condemned to hang just a few short months go, it was business as usual at the major networks. His death was reported amid the rest of the daily news. My point? Gossip sells. Celeb reality sells. The juicy details of the most tragic lives are what we gobble up with our less than silver spoons. So, use... More About: Celebrity , Traffic , Drive , Blog
The search for Jim Gray
2007-02-06 00:43:00 <p>Being in the tech industry it becomes all too easy to become jaded. Jaded by technology. Jaded by technology companies. Jaded by companies that want your technology or your money. Jaded by people that want you to develop something for them for stock in some comapny with some hair brained "idea." Jaded by people and their intentions. But, then you see something that sets your heart back on its right course. Somrthing that really means something. I don't usually write posts here because I am usually too busy coding, but the other day, Amazon took a major leap forward in my book. It was real, it was relevant, it was helping, it was making a difference. Amazon launched an initiative to find a missing scientist.</p> <br /> <p> <a href="http://www.rsspieces.com/2007/ 02/05/the-search-for-jim-gray#more1005&qu ot;>Read more »<... More About: Search , Gray
Is your blog sleeping with the fishes?
2007-02-05 00:22:00 <p><strong>45% of all blogs sleep with the fishes within 3 months: How to keep yours alive and kicking </strong></p> <p>Blog s are like the Cosa Nostra of Web sites. They are connected to one another, bribe their way up the search engine results and peddle their wares to readers...But just like the mafia, if you don’t give a real estate blog what it wants in return, you might just get wacked. Here’s the skinny. According to <a href="http://technorati.com/"&g t;Technorati</a> (AKA, the blogfather) there are 35.3 million blogs out there. The most concerning thing about all that competition is that Technorati also reports that only 55% of people who start a blog today will still be blogging 3 months from now. Needless to say, it’s a blog eat blog world out there and you need to do everything you can to keep your real estate blog out of the fertilizer business, if you know what I mean.</p> <... More About: Sleeping , Fish , With , Your
Mary McKnight, Blogging Evangelist
More articles from this author:2007-02-02 22:44:00 <p><img width="100" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="139" align="left" src="/m/blogs/a/headshot.jpg" alt="Mary McKnight, RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog s" />Mary McKnight began her career in technology just about the time the dot com bubble was bursting. Having worked for a number of startups that went belly up in the bust, Mary made a lateral move into the high power world of Venture Capital to gain a better understanding of what makes or breaks a tech company. In 2004, Mrs. McKnight landed a position as a Senior Consultant for ColdWave Technologies, a diversified software company, servicing Fortune 500 clients like Warner Bros., Coca Cola, Exxon, Bank of America, NCI Building Systems and Ford Motor Credit. While at ColdWave, Mary worked within the feature film and sporting event industries to develop and implement large scale consumer Internet marketing campaigns for brand name products and proper... More About: Blogging , Angel , Night , Evan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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