Well the real estate marketing pros are finding that blogging is a good thing.
Now the attempt to manipualte the search engines are following right behind.
Almost humorous, is the attempts lately to comment spam, this particular blog. What is blog spam?
At the bottom of every post is an inventation for you to comment on the post, ask for advice or jsut say you agree or disagree.
Traditionally, blogs give you the opportunity to comment. And the opportunity to link back to your site. Remember, links are a good thing right? Wrong. Not all of them.
There is a right and wrong way to comment link. And a right and wrong way to link. And because of the recent barrage of spammy linking attempts, typepad (my host) and others have instituted a Google initiated (the other engines followed), link blocker.
Inside of my links and many other sites are the rel="nofollow" attribute. This makes the link not counted by an engine. Thus, page rank and any other link equity is not passed onto the linked to site.
The only, other value is potential traffic, which just isn't worth the efforts.
So what is the value? Well you can track back for one and create a nice themed conversation with my readers and yours.
Even comments by themselves are great and can add readership to both our blogs.
I often will visit a blog that is mentioned in my comments and comment on their site with very valuable commentary.
Unfortunately, many will attempt to get a free ride by saying something of zero value, just to get page rank or link equity. But, I suspect if most highly visited bloggers, like me, will delete rubbish almost within hours. Comments about real estate that have nothing to do with the blog, do not add to our conversation does it?
So I say if you are going to commnet on blogs, add to the conversation and you can actually add to your authority of your market as a "thought leader". This in the end will bring you more quality traffic than any Google, MSN, and Yahoo engine can ever bring you.
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