Archive | April, 2007

How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog — 4. Getting Ready to Launch

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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 [...]

How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog — 3. What is Your Target?

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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 [...]

How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog — 2. Choose Your Platform

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 [...]

How to Start a Local Real Estate Blog — 1. Introduction

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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 [...]

SEO Quick Tip of the Day —> #20 —>Is Your Site Visible?

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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 [...]

Digg.com Works! But For How Long???

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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 [...]

A Fair Warning About Christianrealestateagents.com

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 [...]