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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 process.

browsing changesHelping You Connect With Buyers and Sellers.

city pageWe are however taking a slight curve away from that focus.  In the spirit of enabling you to do your business we are creating channels to help you target the public in your local markets.  These changes will mostly benefit those of you that deal directly with buyers and sellers of real estate, but I'm hoping that everybody on the network will be able to take advantage of this.  If you are writing a blog or browsing through the profile rankings now you'll notice some new links.

Connecting With Clients.

Now keep in mind this is a work in progress.  These pages will be changed quite a bit.  The purpose of expanding these categories and the regional designations is to help you establish your blogging presence by your local market.  Going forward on ActiveRain will help you to connect better with other professionals, but also with potential clients.

Be first now. ActiveRain Blog Categories

So how'd you like to be the first?  There are a lot of cities available to you now to start developing your presence in.  To have your post listed in a city be sure to select "For Consumers."  If you were putting in a description of a city you would want to check the "About a Region" box as well.

 

(Clicking on the images will take you to a larger example.) 

 

Thank you,

-Caleb



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Niche Marketing Or Mainstream by Charles Richey
Blogs Are Better Than Newsletters  By Jason Ungos
More Comments About Blogs by Eileen Landau
Traffic By Writing by Scott Gormley
A Peak Into The Head Of Broker Bryant By Bryant Tutas
Website Owners Must Read By Max Chirkov
Blogging Tools By Me
Dealing With Spam On ActiveRain By Matt

Update: Consumer, Draft and Associates Posts will not affect your top blogger ratings.

 

 

25 Comments on Reaching Out

Am I understanding this correctly?  If I blog about a city in my state and to the prospective clients in that area, it will show up on a search for that city?

10/23/2006 05:19 PM by Karen Hurst ~ Real Estate Broker ~ Warwick ~ Rhode Island (Storm Realty LLC)


Yes Karen, if you were to write about your city (Warwick) and add it to a consumer catagory such as about a region, market reports, etc, and also specify the region it belongs to it will appear in the regional pages. 

For example the regional page for Warwick is:

http://activerain.com/states/RI/Kent%20County/Warwick/real-estate

Nothing there yet...  Only the summary of your post will appear there so a buyer or seller would have to go back to your blog to read the whole post.

10/23/2006 05:35 PM by Matt Heaton (ActiveRain Corp.)


Matt - There are a lot of us that use little smiles :) or :> in the posts.  Is it possible to add little faces that we can click to insert?  I can show you if you email me.  Viewing the example means going to a members only site using a password.

rfk@gryphonusa.com

10/23/2006 05:45 PM by Rich Kruse (Gryphon USA, Ltd.)


Matt one thing I would like to ask, the posts that are geared for consumers shouldn't be included in the comments average calculations. If I go write 10 posts of great local content to fill in some cities and drive more traffic to this site I will end up with maybe one or two comments on each and it will effect my Top blogger rankings. Now these rankings are not the only thing to worry about and that is why I have so many market updates that already drag down my average, but being in the top does add exposure.

With a change like this I think that we will see more agents willing to write posts for the consumer. It isn't even my idea, this has been brought up a number of other times in comments on other posts. 

10/23/2006 05:51 PM by Ken Smith (Suburban House Hunters)


Ken, the consumer posts aren't included in the blog rankings, actually they haven't been for a little while, so I guess we we are reading your mind :)

10/23/2006 05:57 PM by Matt Heaton (ActiveRain Corp.)


Matt, good additions as always. One question. There are lots of property listings and ads showing up on the "all blogs-no ads" section. Are these just categorized wrong and have the folks been sent an E-mail to correct them? I have no problem scrolling by them, just checking. 

10/23/2006 06:09 PM by Bryant Tutas-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc


Bryant: There seems to be a bug with listings showing up under no ads, will get this fixed.

10/23/2006 06:25 PM by Matt Heaton (ActiveRain Corp.)


Matt,

I'm pretty new here and do appreciate all of the changes that you've made in my short time here.  I have one question....how are you guys making money??  It seems to be a pretty full time job tending to the needs of this site and you seem to do it with ease.  Just curious.

10/23/2006 06:54 PM by joanne Douglas (Terrie O'Connor Realtors)


Matt, is the listing post points a bug or did that change, too?  Just wondering.

10/23/2006 07:48 PM by Ben Kakimoto - Seattle Condo Specialist (John L. Scott - Seattle | Belltown)


Matt that explains why my ranking jumped. Makes a lot more sense now.

10/23/2006 08:10 PM by Ken Smith (Suburban House Hunters)


Interesting development - would be interesting to get a reporting matrix going that identifies transactions resulting from this facet of exposure to the consumer.

10/23/2006 08:30 PM by Tony Marriott, Associate Broker, CRP, CLHMS, CRB, CRS ~~ Phoenix Arizona (Keller Williams Realty Professional Partners)


Bugs are crawling everywhere. points, gold stars, tallying, quick pass me the Raid.

10/23/2006 09:21 PM by Kristal Kraft ~Denver Real Estate~303-589-2022 (The Berkshire Group Realtors)


The new categories are definitely consumer-friendly and a step in the right direction. Thanks for the upgrade.

10/23/2006 10:06 PM by John Novak - Las Vegas and Henderson NV Real Estate (Keller Williams Realty The Marketplace)


I am glad for the updates and the changes that are made to keep us ahead of the game.

10/23/2006 10:12 PM by Susan Trombley Re/Max Broker Raleigh NC & Surrounding Areas (Re/Max Hometown)


Another very cool thing you have done! Thanks for continuing to improve an already top notch site.

Pete Willner
Who Will? Pete Will!

Broker Direct Real Estate
Murrieta, CA.
www.PeteWill.com

10/23/2006 10:50 PM by Pete Willner (Broker Direct Real Estate)


I'm looking forward to seeing the consumer side take off as the real estate side has.

10/24/2006 04:51 AM by Sharon Simms St Pete Florida CRS CIPS CLHMS (RE/MAX Metro)


Can't wait to see what you guys will do next!  I think making the connection between the consumer and the Realtor is the next logical step to take this thing you have created and catapult into super-blogdom!

10/24/2006 08:18 AM by Mary McKnight (1parkplace)


<<buckling my seat belt and preparing for catapult>>!!

10/24/2006 02:22 PM by Lisa Dunn www.TwinCitySeller.com (Edina Realty)


Matt, you will have to share the traffic stats with everyone in the coming months. I think this is a step in the right direction to bring in consumer visitors. I'm going to start tracking some of my posts about specific areas and see how they do in the organic results. -Charles

10/24/2006 05:50 PM by Jacqulyn Richey - Las Vegas Real Estate (Prudential)


Jacqulyn, will post some traffic stats when I get back into town tomorrow.  They flattened out for about a month but are starting to climb again.  I think we average about 4,600 unique visitors a day right now, and about 120k page views per day. 

10/26/2006 03:31 PM by Matt Heaton (ActiveRain Corp.)


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