Archive | October, 2007

Your Blog is a balancing Act

26. Oct, 2007 • Categories: "How-To" SEO, Blogging • by Justin Smith

This post was stirred on by a post from Joel Burslem over at FutureofRealEstateMarketing.com. He was writing about the death of the multi author blog, and it really got me thinking about local real estate blogs.
Joel pointed out that he is often overwhelmed by the multi author blogs simply because of the large amount [...]

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How to add a feedburner feed into your email signature

16. Oct, 2007 • Categories: Business Branding, Marketing, Search Strategies • by Justin Smith

Syndicating your content is pretty important these days. My students often get overwhelmed when I tell them all the places they need to submit their blog to including social bookmarking sites, activerain, carnivals… the list goes on and on.
Things can get more complicated when you try to market your blog on and offline, and [...]

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The Big Pink Toilet of Death

09. Oct, 2007 • Categories: Offbeat • by Justin Smith

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Here’s a perfect example of why I don’t put Google ads on my site. I found this on the Future of Real Estate Marketing blog this morning as I was browsing. The big pink toilet just stuck out like a sore thumb while I was reading about Zolve.com!

Joel has one of the best [...]

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How to Avoid Suffering From Blogging & Social Media Overload

05. Oct, 2007 • Categories: Blogging, Search Strategies • by Justin Smith

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As we enter into the golden age of blogging, and the maturity of social media websites like Facebook, Linkedin, ActiveRain, and others.  I’ve begun to see a trend emerging among real estate professionals.  Many of them simply don’t care about social networking, reading other blogs, participating in a community, or contributing in any way.  Does [...]

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Hooray for the Real Estate Tomato

04. Oct, 2007 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

Yeah baby…

http://www.inman.com/Member/specialreports/bloggers07/default.aspx

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vFlyer Is Taking Over Real Estate Classified Ads

03. Oct, 2007 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

vFlyer has done it again. This company continues to impress me. I have written about vFlyer before, twice actually. At the time, I was a die hard postlets fan because of the speed in which you could post listings. But since then, vFlyer has grown up quite a bit and won [...]

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Is Your Market Saturated with Other Bloggers?

02. Oct, 2007 • Categories: Blogging • by Justin Smith

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I’ve heard some talk lately from discouraged real estate bloggers that can’t seem to rank well in the search engines. They try blogging for a few weeks and then give up often times assuming that there are simply too many competing blogs and websites in their market area. In most markets, this is [...]

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