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The Secret To Getting Real Estate Traffic

The recent article of last month in my Big City paper, the LA Times raises realty blogging to a place of absolute necessity and almost web royalty. The takeaway seemed to be just blog and success will come. Which of course reminds me of the old Web 1.0 adage, "build it and they will come". Which site owners eventually find to be untrue.

It seems with every new emergence of a platform comes a love affair. But let's focus on the current love affair with Blogging.

Blogs are just websites. There is nothing magical about them other than they give a user the opportunity to easily write and post content. Stuff they should have been doing on their traditional website. And it is easy to ping web service directories.

Here is the secret to getting traffic: Create content and get lots of links. The end. (of course if the content is not focused you get untargeted traffic. And try competing for a popular keyword without getting a ton of inbound links).

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Infiltrating a conversation

I thought this interesting enough to post it here for your amusement and more importantly to see how one can market ideas often thru stealth means. Read more →

A Blog's Whisper

Did you know that our medical Doctors get most of their ongoing education from the pharmaceutical Industry? Isn't that the "tail wagging the dog"? However, similarly most of the "leaders" in real estate marketing online has been the vendors. It has always been this way even pre-internet when I was cold calling expireds. Read more →

The Reason for the Real Estate Recession

There I go letting my need for a headline hook to get people to come to the site. I really do not believe there is a recession. Is there a problem? Yes, perhaps larger than most think. And it goes way beyond real estate. However,... Read more →

Who are the Bloggers?

It seems over a quarter of us are writing web posts! Simultaneous Media Survey (SIMM 11) studied15,727 participants on the subject of the blogosphere. 26% of all adults say they regularly or occasionally blog. Of those, 53.7% are male 44.7% are married. 28.4% hold a... Read more →

The Day "the Conversation" Died

My first thoughts on this one was echoed by the story Hell Hath no Fury Like a Blogger Sued. Anyone with more than one email address can logically deduce that the net is easily anonymous. And add in some 2.0 and it is easy to fight back. In fact, a whole new subset of SEO is emerging called Reputation Management As Sellsius asks instead of controlling the news by simply asking for a retraction or correction, this builder used old methodologies to squash it. Read more →

Blog Article

A nice little starter blog article at entrepreneur.com. We have a few blog articles and podcasts ourselves in the blogging section of this site. My favorite piece by the author is that you should look at the blog as a book instead of as a... Read more →

Google Loves Blogs

Google does not love blogs, or favor blogs any more than it favors any other website. In fact a blog is a website. Google doesn't love anything. It follows links and indexes the web. The easier you make it for them may help your cause. But it is not a guarantee....To me this is the largest advantage of a blog (ease of use). The blog begs its author to add another post. Thus, it is more likely to be filled with content. ...And content always is what can help start the Google Happy Train to come your way. Read more →

Blog Commenting for Clients

I know that personally that I can get full of myself on some neat trick I figured out online. And it is when you get the most arrogant online is when the roof falls in (Try losing 100,000 engine based visitors a month. Thia happened to me on a site I ran a few years back. That will humble anyone). Arrogance can blind one to your own success and the reasons for it. Read more →

How Do You Compete With HomeGain and Trulia?

I just announced this to my list. I welcome you to join us too: Find out in Two Hours. At 12 Noon Pacific today I share with you insider information that will shift your thinking forever on online marketing. You must opt in to get... Read more →