blogging: Real Estate Blogging 101 - How to Get Started - Promoting Your Blog - 11/05/06 10:29 AM
Welcome to part 2 in a 5-part series on How to Get Started Blogging.
If you are looking to attract consumers there is no "Field of Dreams" in blogging. The "build it and they will come" attitude is a surefire ticket to the blogger's junk pile. Part of your plan must be to define how you … (5 comments)
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blogging: Brain-storming and Dry-Spell Writing Ideas - 11/04/06 08:54 PM
One of the most crucial elements of successful blogging is consistent writing over time. If more than a few days go by without some up to date writing, readers will slowly and surely stop checking your blog. Yet even the most prolific and creative mind has writer’s block and dry … (5 comments)
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blogging: Writing effective blog articles - 11/04/06 08:51 PM
There is no cardinal rule of how to blog. Blogging is about providing your ideas and information in an easy to interpret manner, with the goal of opening a new line of communication. With no specific rules, there are key elements that many successful bloggers pay attention to- Some recommendations to … (1 comments)
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blogging: Real Estate Blogging 101 - How to Get Started - Defining Your Theme - 11/04/06 03:08 PM
This is a continuation of Colleen Kulikowski's blog on ActiveRain based on the course that we jointly presented at the Marco Island Area Association of Realtors(MIAAOR).
Part one can be found at REAL ESTATE BLOGGING 101.
Over the next 5 days, I will discuss how one gets started blogging, blogging guidelines as well as finding … (2 comments)
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blogging: BloggingSystems on Mike Kent's "Radio Real Estate" - 11/04/06 03:01 PM
This morning I did a radio show with Mike Kent on his “Radio Real Estate” program on KGMI am 790. (we'll get a link to the show when available)
A quick recap- Online communication is changing the real estate industry back into a word of mouth business. Five years ago online … (0 comments)
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blogging: The University District - 11/03/06 10:40 PM
The University Distict- home of the University of Washington, excellent walking shopping areas, some great restaurants, and a great selection of independent stores.
1) Giggles Comedy Club 5220 Roosevelt Way, Seattle, WA 98105 Phone: 206-526-5653 Giggles serves up a full bar and menu as well as great laughs. Friday and Saturday … (0 comments)
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blogging: Seattle's Park List - 11/03/06 10:39 PM
Seattle has a variety of major parks including Discovery, Volunteer, Seward, the Washington Park Arboretum, and Gasworks. The large size of these parks highlights them in the community, but there are also many small parks that feature great places for picnics and scenic views of the area. A number of … (0 comments)
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blogging: Real Estate and Blogging - 11/03/06 10:38 PM
Over the years the left and right sides of my brain have been invaded by thinking about the way real estate online has evolved along a parallel path with other online technologies. In general real estate as a whole has been a few steps behind other industries in applying various … (0 comments)
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blogging: Blog Business Summit - 11/03/06 10:34 PM
Over the years, my personal ‘theme’ has evolved around two primary phrases- “Changing Reality” and “Technical Disaster”. Both are tongue-in-cheek outlooks at where the world is today, and where we can go. Technology (not just on the web) is evolving so quickly on a basic level there are amazing new avenues … (2 comments)
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blogging: Local to the Puget Sound- listen in Nov 5th. - 11/03/06 10:25 PM
My name is Barry Hurd. I'm a Seattle local who loves the northwest, enjoys making new connections, and is always looking for interesting people to hook-up with. I write in many other locations on a frequent basis, and I just started adding ActiveRain to my writing list.
For those of you … (1 comments)
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blogging: To Tell or NOT to TELL? That is the question. - 11/03/06 08:40 AM
To Tell or Not to TELL? It’s amazing how adults can get wrapped up in what they need to do, and forget why they are doing it. Not making the kids an active part of your move could have long-term effects in their lives. Make sure you keep the doors of … (7 comments)
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blogging: WHADDAYA GOTTA DO TO EARN A "GOLD STAR?" - 11/03/06 07:00 AM
After this morning's codger meeting, Medford & I removed to his place, and got to talking about AR's coveted "Gold Star" designation for featured posts. We are the recipient of one such award. We like gold stars! We really likethe bragging rights they give us with the codgers: "See, we told … (7 comments)
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blogging: I've Caught IT !!! - 11/02/06 10:11 AM
I think I've caught a disease that I never even knew anything about until just a couple of months ago, and now I think it's infected me!!
........it's called "BLOGGING"!!! Oh no!!! How on earth did I catch this crazy bug????????
I woke up in the middle of the night last … (13 comments)
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blogging: Blog Commenting 101: respect the blog host - 11/02/06 07:41 AM
Coming to you live from Boston. It's "wicked" cold in Bean Town! Commenting on other industry or local blogs is a free means of developing a name for yourself and driving traffic from a popular blog(s) back to your blog. However, it must be done strategically and according the rules of … (12 comments)
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blogging: ActiveRain And The Real World - 11/01/06 09:15 PM
Rich's blog tonight about "The Karma of Comments" made me think about my own evolution in this blogging business. I'd made a rudimentary effort at it for awhile, but couldn't seem to treat it with the same sense of immediacy that the rest of my business so often demands. It was only coming here … (7 comments)
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blogging: It’s Working! It’s Working!!! - 11/01/06 04:46 PM
Many of us have been blogging for some time and using this great forum to express our views, interact with our peers, discuss and learn about our industry, and…um... oh yeah… increase our online presence and search engine rank. Well, for me personally, my continual commentary on all things real estate … (0 comments)
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blogging: Strategic Blogging: planning traffic increases with blog wars and commenting - 11/01/06 09:52 AM
The golden rule of blogging: think before you type A real estate blog is a marketing tool and marketing IS a science that can be managed methodically. Each post should be planned in advance so that your time spent blogging is efficient and each post builds on one another to create … (23 comments)
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blogging: Real Estate vs. Sex - 11/01/06 09:42 AM
I posted the lower part of this blog on Nov. 1 and with the new group, thought I'd bring it back to life with a face-lift.
I recenlty finished reading Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love House, a book by Marjorie Garber, and it was an interesting concept. But a bit over-blown. The … (4 comments)
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blogging: Categorizing posts for the consumer audience - 10/31/06 09:01 PM
As I mentioned in a previous blog post "The consumer connection" we are beginning to find new ways to target content at the consumer audience and ultimately drive more business to our members. Central to this effort is being able to properly categorize consumer oriented posts regionally. These consumer oriented posts … (23 comments)
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blogging: A Blogging Dilemma - 10/31/06 08:44 PM
I've been wondering about this for some time now. I have another blogsite as I know some other Rainers do. My Eastern CT Real Estate Blog keeps me busy blogging several times a week. I mostly blog about area market conditions, tips for buyers and sellers, and items of local interest. … (19 comments)
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blogging: SERPs, Points, ActiveRain - 10/31/06 01:02 AM
100,000 points, have you ever thought about that mile stone? Teri Isner (FL) is the first member of the ActiveRain community to reach it. Holy Moly, I would know what to do with 100K points but I sure could if it was money.
Do points assist a Rainer out in the bloggisphere … (5 comments)
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blogging: Blog Comments: Thorns amongst the flowers. - 10/30/06 10:47 PM
When I posted my “Little Orphan Rodney” blog this morning I never thought it would create such a firestorm of comments.
I been so inspired by the spirit of kindness and generosity on Active Rain that I try hard to make my voice here be a voice of inclusion, a voice a … (10 comments)
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blogging: We Have a Winner!!! Teri Isner Hits 100k Points! - 10/30/06 08:51 PM
It took a little longer than expected because of the changes made by the AR guys over to the new point system the night after I posted my 100k point update. Previously, 3 blogs per day could be awarded with points giving each member a possible 600 base points per … (7 comments)
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blogging: Haunted Houses For Sale - 10/30/06 08:36 PM
Any real estate professional knows that Inman News is the source for real estate news. Their site is full of the latest information for anyone in the industry. It is a subscription site, but I get their daily newsletters – there is a morning and an evening edition – and … (0 comments)
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blogging: Blog Ettiquette 101: Handling the angry blogger/commenter - 10/30/06 06:12 AM
You’ve been blasted, someone is ranting and raving in the comments of your blog or they have you in their cross-hairs on their own blog. What do you do? Do you delete the comments, do you respond, do you ignore them? This is the question many bloggers face daily. As a Realtor or lender, getting … (34 comments)
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blogging: Is Active Rain dying? - 10/30/06 05:14 AM
When I first came to Active Rain I could spend hours here reading the blogs. Lately I’ve been popping in, reading a few, commenting on even fewer, then leaving. It’s not because I’m too busy – ok, I am busy, but never too busy for Active Rain. It’s not because I’m … (45 comments)
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blogging: Took the Day Off - 10/28/06 09:26 PM
Even retired guys like me get a day off, today was mine. I stayed away from the computer & blogs from this morning until this evening. I just knocked around all day.
Carl (retired Army, Retired Ford Plant assembly line foreman) with his excellent sense of timing, stopped by the … (3 comments)
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blogging: Can blogging help your rankings? - 10/28/06 04:38 PM
I thought I'd touch on this topic a little. Not to say that I'm the best one to talk about it being that I don't listen to my own advise and blog that often. I was asked the other day by an agent if starting a blog could help their rankings with … (2 comments)
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blogging: Not a fan of Active Rain? - 10/28/06 01:55 AM
Someone who is not a fan of Active Rain mentioned realestateblogsites.com I am not familiar with realestateblogsites.com are you? I know it is part of MyST. I know NAR has a blog on realestateblogsites.com. It's got to be a great place to have a blog.
Not a fan of Active Rain? Are you a … (31 comments)
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blogging: Blog Marketing 101: Boost your traffic by 40% in less than 1 hour/day - 10/27/06 01:58 PM
Your blog is your child. And just like a newborn, it must be nurtured and monitored to ensure that it graduates from pre-school and eventually moves out of the house to achieve success on the wild wild web. I thought about all the ways I could show you what to expect from your … (18 comments)
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blogging: Does your website or blog need Prozac? How to avoid the bipolar blog. - 10/26/06 09:36 AM
Avoiding the bipolar website and blog Does your website or blog need Prozac? Does your site ramble on and on touching on everything from phone cards to razor blades and eventually getting around to your listings, local information and maybe somewhere in there what a great agent you are? If … (44 comments)
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blogging: Sellsius tells all in this candid interview with REBlogGirl - 10/25/06 05:04 PM
Take a sneak peek behind the wildly successful Sellsius blog. Rudy and Joe come clean with their tips and tricks for building a successful real estate blog, how they love ActiveRain, what their crystal ball holds for the future of online real estate technology and why man holes are round. This … (7 comments)
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blogging: Blogging continues strong growth - 10/25/06 02:12 PM
Yesterday's Chicago Tribune had a story about blogging, written by Steve Johnson, with some interesting statistics:
175,000 new blogs are created each day (Technorati)Of the 57 million blogs that Technorati watches, one in eight add new content weekly.The primary topics for blogs are "my life and experiences" (37%) and politics (11%) (Pew … (1 comments)
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blogging: How instant coffee changed our lives... - 10/25/06 01:32 PM
A common question from home stagers is why real estate agents fail to see the value in our services.For me, the answer is easy – we are a new industry and we can’t expect to change the world overnight.Take instant coffee for example, I once read an article outlining the … (4 comments)
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blogging: The cost of Home Staging - 10/25/06 09:27 AM
On behalf of all home stagers, I'm conducting an informal poll on what real estate agents believe our services cost.
We would love to hear from all agents on Active Rain.
A 2 hour consultation would consist of:
- Room by room review
- Specific recommendations provided in writing giving the homeowner an … (12 comments)
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blogging: Tuesday, Oct 24 with Old Men at the Coffee Shop - 10/25/06 05:42 AM
Tuesday morning I drove over to the coffee shop, instead of walking, as I had some errands to run after out meeting. As I wove my way to our usual table, Fred, whose nose is normally buried in the morning newspaper, piped up: “Where’s yer Ford? You don’t go anywhere … (6 comments)
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blogging: Town Names: Sounds Like A Nice Place To Live - 10/24/06 09:27 PM
What's in a name?
We had a visitor from Niceville, Florida and thought, that sounds like a nice place to live. So we searched for some more interesting town names. And here's what we found.
Do you have any others?
Niceville, Florida
Pleasantville, Wisconsin
Paradise, California
Hell, Michigan
Kill Devil Hills, … (11 comments)
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blogging: You want to learn on Active Rain? - 10/24/06 05:57 PM
Does it bother you that there are a lot of off topic posts, people goofing around, just having fun?
Aside from not reading those posts... you could learn a lot from them and the posters... try participating...
The "The Lovely Wife" just had a massive blog on nicknames and she started it all … (35 comments)
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blogging: Blog Titles: Making them Effective - 10/24/06 05:00 PM
In the world of SEO titles are one of the first item read by a search engine (SE) and human readers. Titles need to describe the blog, be short & sweet and should encompass the key words and phrases that are most important.
There are many so many blog on the internet … (10 comments)
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blogging: Top 5 secrets of successful blogs and how yours can be one of them - 10/24/06 11:15 AM
According to Technorati’s February 2006 study, one new weblog is created every second which amounts to about 75,000 new bogs each day. With that much competition, clearly, not every blog will be successful, so what makes one blog climb in the SERPs and gain momentum with readers while others flounder? Let’s dig … (44 comments)
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blogging: The ICK Factor and Bathroom Basics - 10/24/06 09:07 AM
Never has there been a room that can have a larger impact on a buyer than the bathroom. It’s a room of such intimate exposure and can often display what I call “The ICK Factor”.Here’s a checklist to keep your listings on track:- Replace the plastic shower liner and wash the … (5 comments)
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blogging: Google Blog Search - 10/23/06 09:47 PM
I have been looking for some great blogs to subscribe to and found what may turn out to be an easier way to search for blogs. Google has a new tool out in beta testing that will allow you to search for blogs!How do you currently find interesting topics that you … (7 comments)
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blogging: Reaching Out - 10/23/06 05:11 PM
For some time now ActiveRain has been working toward bettering your experience on The Network and helping you connect with each other. Through your suggestions we have made a very large list of updates and changes. We continually work on this and as we see it this is a never ending … (25 comments)
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blogging: Retired Doesn't Mean Not Busy! - 10/23/06 05:35 AM
It’ 4:40AM CDT, and as usual I’m seated at the computer, a TV above my head (mounted on one of those brackety things like you sometimes see in motel rooms or sports bars) with the national network news droning away, and attempting to write a post for AR. I have … (0 comments)
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blogging: Make a positive out of a negative - 10/22/06 10:16 PM
Occasionally there things in our lives or where we live that just aren't considered popular or a good thing.
For instance in New Jersey it is a "put down" when someone asks "what exit?" The reason this is, is because most people think of New Jersey as a place with nothing but … (5 comments)
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blogging: Ultimate guide to real estate podcasting, part 1 - 10/22/06 01:57 PM
If you don’t know what Podcasting is, how simple it is to implement, how little you have to spend to do it, or what the best ways you can use this technology on your real estate website, it is time you learn. Podcasting technology enables users of personal audio players (iPods, MP3s, … (29 comments)
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blogging: WHY "BLOG"- by RALPH ROWLAND ROBERTS - 10/22/06 07:15 AM
Do you recall Garrett Morris' Saturday Night Live character Chico Escuela? His famous line was “Baseball has been very, very good to me.” Let me borrow from that sentiment to say, “Blogging has been very, very good to me!”
My own experiences with blogging testify to the positive effect it can … (4 comments)
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blogging: Secrets of driving huge traffic with sensational blog titles - 10/21/06 03:33 PM
People love glitz, glamour, gossip… why else do you think CNN.com has started putting gossipy headlines about Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson or some other pop-tartlet of the day on their homepage? I’m sure that one of today’s featured stories “Harrison Ford: I’m still fit to play Indiana Jones” isn’t really news, … (12 comments)
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blogging: Blog categories - Where should I put my post? - 10/21/06 02:33 PM
Here's a description of the various categories blog posts can be put assist others in finding them. There is no requirement to add a post to a category, or sub category. If you don't feel you post fits in one of the categories don't add it, people can still view your … (34 comments)
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blogging: New blog categories and regional blog display - 10/21/06 01:50 PM
About 3:00 am PST the proposed blog category changes went into effect. Instead of the previous 5 categories there are two main categories, "For Real Estate Professionals" and "For Consumers" each with a set of sub categories. This new category system is to help people efficiently find the posts they want … (21 comments)
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blogging: Build It And They Will Come - 10/21/06 09:32 AM
Build It (A Blog) and They (Customers) Will Come.....
I enjoyed Christine Forgione's interview with Joseph G. Ferrara and Rudolph D. Bachraty III, The Founders of Sellsius°.
Conspicuous by its absence is any real information on Sellisus' mysterious new web product, and when it will finally be unveiled.
And I think, intentionally or not, Sellsius has created … (3 comments)
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blogging: What to expect from your website and how to measure success - 10/20/06 09:38 AM
Your website is an online storefront that needs traffic to drive leads and sales. Websites are marketing tools, just about every source on the World Wide Web agrees that the purpose of a website is to generate business through getting more “eyeballs” to see your product. The web is the … (40 comments)
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blogging: Joseph G. Ferrara and Rudolph D. Bachraty III, The Founders of Sellsius° - 10/20/06 08:58 AM
I had the pleasure of "interviewing" the gentlemen and founders of SellsiusRealEstate. There are alot of blogs that I read daily but there is one that continiously steps outside of the box. They are responsible for the Top Ten Female Bloggers (which by the way was an honor), the 101 … (13 comments)
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blogging: "CHEERS" to new marketing opportunities for stagers! - 10/19/06 08:26 PM
So if you have not figured it out yet... I have a BIG mouth.
I would rather share what I know and NEW THINGS I have learned about staging then hold it as a trade secret. WHY? Because the staging industry is young and the faster we all share what we … (29 comments)
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blogging: The Family - 10/19/06 12:04 PM
This blog has nothing to do with Real Estate, but, it's my way of letting people know that I'm an actual human and not just a Real Estate, blogging robot. Or even better than that, a Real Estate Professional that pays someone else good money to blog for them. Imagine that, … (2 comments)
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blogging: videos of some homes we have for rent - 10/19/06 11:37 AM
Something new we are doing.
Check out a few videos of some homes we have for rent in the Indianapolis area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd60Ejcoh6c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjPeP-83ydY
More to follow later on.
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blogging: The topic du jour: What's posted in blogs... - 10/19/06 12:43 AM
The topics being discussed on ActiveRain seem to go on waves. Every day or two there seems to be one topic that everyone is blogging about. The last two days the talk has been about what is appropriate for people to be posting on ActiveRain blogs. I've commented on several of these posts, … (13 comments)
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blogging: Active Rain Blogging? Watch out for the Blog Police? - 10/18/06 07:09 PM
I have been an Active Rain member for a month now and love it. I love writing blogs, especially about my local region of North Atlanta. While they are not page long articles, I still believe they get the idea or point across. All of the sudden I've been noticing a … (14 comments)
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blogging: What Are You Writing About? - 10/18/06 04:25 PM
I've seen a lot of blogs on ActiveRain. Many of you are talking about so many different topics that it's hard not to stay interested. I've seen posts specifically related to sales, the tried and trued tips, and the trials and tribulations that many of us in this industry go through. … (23 comments)
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blogging: Ultimate guide to building backlinks and growing your site - 10/17/06 12:27 PM
Back links (links from another website back to yours) are still currently the backbone, holy grail and Grand Poo-bah of increasing Page Rank, Search Engine Results Positioning (SERP) and traffic. You have to have a good solid strategy for building links from other sites back to yours or else you can … (57 comments)
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blogging: New Upgrade Available for Bloggers...do you qualify? - 10/16/06 09:55 PM
Are you a Spammer?
Well today maybe your lucky day! Now for a LIMITED TIME only you may qualify for an Active Rain Upgrade, a lovely, collector's item Etch a Sketch, with possible wireless connectively. This can be yours if and only if you qualify...
Can you answer "YES" to the following:
1) Do … (15 comments)
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blogging: Canonicalization Part 2: unifying a website and a blog - 10/16/06 08:41 PM
Now that you have a basic understanding of canonicalization 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 … (5 comments)
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blogging: Changes Coming To Blog Limits. - 10/16/06 08:28 PM
Trying to keep up?
There will be an update to our blogging engine coming down the pipe. Starting Sunday post point limits will be set at 10 posts per week scored at 200 points each. We welcome you posting more, automated scoring will be limited to 10 per week. The scheduled … (63 comments)
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blogging: Goal setting for bloggers: how to build a popular blog - 10/16/06 10:59 AM
A study conducted over the course of 20 years followed Harvard grad incomes and found that while 90% of grads made $X annually ($X was not defined) after 20 years, the other 10% made 10 times $X. What separated the 90% from the selected 10% was that the 10% wrote … (24 comments)
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blogging: The POWER of Blogging - 10/16/06 06:54 AM
Much has been asked about the power of blogging here on Active Rain. People want to know if it is "worth" it? They want to know if blogging generates business... will it make them more money?
Well in order to make money your blog first be seen… and it looks like my … (6 comments)
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blogging: Branding doesn't hurt! - 10/15/06 11:34 PM
Talk about branding is everywhere. Branding can be a complicated and simple as a Nike Swoosh, recognizable in sound as your PC booting up to play the Microsoft chimes.
OK, but these examples are of big companies with marketing departments and huge budgets. What can we, as real estate industry professionals can … (15 comments)
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blogging: Google Blogs - 10/15/06 05:27 PM
I was just on Google Blogs doing some searches & guess what? This very blog came up #1 for Cape Coral Homes!!!!
Then I searched for Cape Coral Real Estate - again this blog is #2 & my other blog is #1 under 'related blogs'. Which reminded me, I've been so busy … (6 comments)
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blogging: Humanizing a blog: how blogging is like bodybuilding - 10/15/06 02:32 PM
The art of humanizing and connecting with a reader through a blog OK, guys and dolls, let’s get into the meat of how to connect on a personal and human level with your audience in each post. Blogging is a very personal media channel. People want to learn more about you, … (31 comments)
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blogging: New Regular Feature of our Blog - 10/15/06 12:39 PM
Weekday banner for the Old Men & Coffee Shop series(above), you may guess, but we won't tell!
Saturday banner (or when we don't meet)Skyline of St. Paul:
I may just figure out how to make them fit the top of the document. I am not Kristal, or Maureen, who are capable of using … (5 comments)
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blogging: MLS Rules - 10/15/06 11:45 AM
Many of Ative Rain bloggers have discussed the current real estate market and submitted DOM as well as current pricing and sold pricing in each of our areas. This morning on the MLS for the Sacramento and surrounding areas in California, there is a "new" entry that a listing Realtor can now take advantage of. It … (1 comments)
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blogging: Traffic on Active Rain....Who is Kenny? - 10/15/06 01:44 AM
Please excuse my obsession with blog traffic.
Traffic continues to grow on Active Rain.
From Alexa:
Traffic Rank for activerain.com: 18,838
3 mo. change in reach + 795%
Where do people go on activerain.com?
activerain.com - 99% kenny.activerain.com - 1%
The mystery is who is Kenny? http://kenny.activerain.com/
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blogging: Blogging Terms 101 - 10/14/06 08:16 PM
Here are some blogging terms that I have come across in the past. Associate – A fellow blogger that is put on a list so others can visit their blog.Blog – An online web log that is written by a person or collection of persons. Topic can vary from personal to business to religion. A … (4 comments)
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blogging: Google Sandbox: Secrets Revealed - 10/14/06 11:03 AM
In the last few months I have heard epic tales of the Google Sandbox. I’ve had clients tell me it’s an urban legend and others say their site is “permanently sandboxed and they have no hope of crawling up the search results because of it.” In fact, the Google Sandbox has … (43 comments)
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blogging: Blogs, (as discussed by the codgers) - 10/14/06 04:26 AM
If anything, this Friday morning was more miserable than Thursday. Still, today we had a quorum as the usual cast of codgers could be found at the table, in front by the plate-glass window, where we can watch passers by, and maybe (usually) make a comment or two.
“Jay, tell us about … (2 comments)
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blogging: The Race is on for the AR 100k Point Mark! - 10/13/06 05:19 PM
I've been eagerly waiting to see which Active Rain member will make it to 100,000 point first.
Let's see who's in the race, and review their background and point strategy:
Top 3 contenders:
# 1. Teri Isner - Current Total: 90,853
* Member since: 7/6/06
* Not a significant amount of points from … (8 comments)
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blogging: Drive backlinks & traffic: Real Estate LinkBait Ideas - 10/13/06 10:38 AM
Driving traffic to your website or blog is crucial for increasing backlinks (links from other sites back to yours), Page Rank (a search engine’s measure of how trustable your site is) and SERP (where you place in search engine search results). Learn to use link bait, the most effective means of … (6 comments)
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blogging: Why you must be blogging by January 2007 - 10/13/06 07:35 AM
What the release of Microsoft Vista means for Realtors In January 2007, Microsoft is scheduled to release its latest operating system, Vista. The Primary features added to Vista are its full integration of RSS and additional RSS extensions which will broaden RSSs uses as a lead generation and capture technology. With … (12 comments)
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blogging: How to pull RSS feeds for dynamic content on your site - 10/12/06 01:12 PM
On another morning tour through comments on some other AR technical real estate blogs, I saw an “SEO professional” recommending using JavaScript for pulling RSS feeds. They even went so far as to give away some code that would “help” agents pull feeds on their website. Say it ain’t so! … (7 comments)
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blogging: Thinking About Selling Your Home? Tip 2 - 10/12/06 10:26 AM
I do a much more thorough Market Analysis than what was described in Tip 1 that includes building materials quality, county appraisals in your area on comparable homes, previous sales of comparable homes, previously expired prices of homes that did not sell, and a whole lot more to help you decide … (1 comments)
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blogging: Does a question mark in the URL affect your ranking? - 10/12/06 08:08 AM
Well, I am not the best when it comes to computers and how blogging works 100%. But I was doing some searching on the internet and found out an interesting fact to share with you. But after reading some of these articles, it seems that this is still an ongoing study.
How … (12 comments)
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blogging: The PC's of Blogging - 10/11/06 02:50 PM
Being PC while blogging. There should be rules, etiquette is everywhere whether you choose to conform or not, there are those that know the rules and know when the rules are broken. And there are those who will endeavor to break all rules, whenever given the opportunity. I believe that we … (8 comments)
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blogging: Active Rain: Business Builders? - 10/11/06 08:29 AM
OK. So now that the rating system has been changed...
Each year at the NAR trade show the Cyberprofessionals go around putting stickers up on the booths we think merit special attention that say "Cool Spot"... (look for them on Saturday at the trade show!) it's a great form of non verbal networking and … (13 comments)
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blogging: MYTH: RSS feeds on your site are SEO poison - 10/11/06 05:21 AM
WARNING: This article is very geeky!Dispelling a common myth about a cool technology
Sitting down with my morning coffee, reading through my blog comments, I am shaken to the very core with a myth I thought was long since dispelled. I came across a comment that basically says using RSS feeds … (10 comments)
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blogging: WARNING ***Not for the faint - - 10/10/06 08:49 PM
I was out blog hopping tonight and doing some updating - dancing around some blogs and I came across a regular blog that I read quite often. There is a reason on why I am posting it here and not on my regular blog. See - I do have two different … (23 comments)
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blogging: Best blogging resources - 10/10/06 08:17 PM
Active Rain members love to blog! I am going to share my favorite blogging and technical resources. I don't have time to read everything I see about blogging or about technology so I went through my RSS feedreader and sorted through the 100 links or so and picked out the best. … (3 comments)
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blogging: REAL Estate Etiquette ~ Blogging Etiquette - 10/10/06 07:15 PM
In a real estate transaction, I so appreciate it when the other realtor follows what I consider to be proper protocol or in other words a form of etiquette in our profession. Many times, etiquette is not only the niceties but it can also be a safeguard for assuring a smooth transaction. … (4 comments)
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blogging: Pumpkin Carving Could Be Dangerous - 10/10/06 01:29 PM
Pumpkin Carving
According to the American Society of Hand Therapists, the Halloween season often sees an influx of patients with severe injuries to their hands and fingers as a result of pumpkin-related accidents. To prevent hand injuries while carving pumpkins, ASHT recommends the following safety tips:
Ask for help carrying a … (2 comments)
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blogging: Get noticed on Google with free directory marketing - 10/10/06 11:28 AM
Google represents more than 50% of all web searches in the United States. For real estate agents that means, you need to get your site searchable on Google. So, how do you go about doing that? How Google Rates Websites
Google, unlike most search engines puts the most value on … (5 comments)
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blogging: You're a Blog-Head Charlie Brown... - 10/09/06 12:37 AM
((Ok. Not much information... just some thoughts...))
I don't know where it came from... I don't know how it happened... But now, I am always thinking about real estate in terms of "How can I Blog this?" or "Hmmm. I wonder if anyone has blogged this."
It's great! - a new medium for … (1 comments)
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blogging: How about a fast forward feature...........please. - 10/08/06 01:14 PM
As I slowly grow my Activerain associates list I find that I come across posts while blogging that I would like to share with them. I think it would be great to have a "forward" button that would bring up my associates list so I would be able to send relevant … (10 comments)
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blogging: Make a lot of pots - 10/08/06 09:14 AM
In Gary William's Millionaire Real Estate Agent book, they tell the story about a study of school children given the task of making clay pots. One group of students was told to make one pot as perfectly as they could. The other group was told to make as many pots as … (3 comments)
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blogging: Fontastic find! - 10/08/06 04:09 AM
For those who do their own flyers and advertising, or even for those who just want to spice up their blogging, I know how hard it is to find fresh fonts so I offer up my latest find. This collection isn't overly extensive but I did find that it had quite … (4 comments)
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blogging: Real Estate Stagers establish a new record here on the A.R. Blogger Hwy. - 10/07/06 06:16 PM
Well, I personally want to welcome Active Rain's 100th Stager: Maureen Henry of Rockland Home Staging.
Being #100 is truely is a milestone for stagers here on AR... who currently expirience a ratio of 40:1 when you compare realtors to stagers here on AR.
Realtors... more and more stagers are out there.... I encourage you … (14 comments)
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blogging: Observations from the Blog Tour - 10/07/06 08:28 AM
A follow up report from our little non-ActiveRain blog tour experiment this week. For those of you who missed my original invitation, we visited the blogs of members who maintain a separate blog outside of ActiveRain.
I visited a lot of great sites and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I … (25 comments)
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blogging: Is a Blog ever too long? Too much information? - 10/06/06 10:17 AM
Hi Active Rain members.....
I am new to this site and very new to blogging. I posted my first blog yesterday and I think it was too long. Sometimes when I try to get a message across, I don't when to stop or sometimes give to much information. But in this case, … (7 comments)
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blogging: What is it about Active Rain? - 10/06/06 06:41 AM
At the Leaders in Luxury conference we were talking about blogs (no surprise, it's permeating every sector of real estate). We know blogs are about search engines and blogs provide
BetterListingOnGoogle
and we know it's about a conversation, not a monologue. Many individual's blogs are monologues. Look how many ActiveRain members blog that … (4 comments)
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blogging: Great Blog Tool - 10/05/06 05:19 PM
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blogging: More Useful Tools Recently Released by Google - 10/05/06 04:56 PM
Since I'm on a Google kick today... I thought I'd mention a couple more tools that Google recently came out with:
1. Add widgets to your website. (or as Google calls them: "gadgets") This is my favorite, and is especially useful for the person that wants to add all kinds of cool … (1 comments)
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blogging: Do You Ping Your Blogs? - 10/05/06 04:17 PM
"pinging" in the context of blogging is a way to tell the different websites that compile blog posts that you have added new content to your blog. This would include sites like technorati or feedburner, and other similar blog post aggregators.
In the way of an update on my post … (3 comments)
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blogging: Google Launches New Blogger Friendly Search Service - 10/05/06 11:20 AM
Google has just launched a specialized Blog only search portal. http://blogsearch.google.com From what I can see it looks like a very cool way to search for blog content. So often blog content can get watered down and not rank well in the standard serps. It seems like Google is trying … (5 comments)
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