Say It Right! The Art of Commenting On Social News Sites

You know you need to participate in Social Media. Here are some tips in doing it right. It boils down to being relevant and sincere in your comments.

Beginner and Comprehensive Guides to SEO, Link Building, PPC, Social Media, Affiliate Marketing and Blogging | SEO Scoop

Good list of beginner guides and introductions to everything in the title.

Google Analytics Benchmarking Feature, Data Sharing & Audio Ad Charting

If you have Google Analytics you can now see what similar sites to yours are getting in traffic.  Key is you have to opt to share your date with google if you are going to see google’s data.

Real Estate Ideas for Your Blog

Don’t know what to post about.  Visit here to see a 3 part series on ideas to write on.

My favorite is the market update.  Buyers now have access to the information so it is your interpretation of the information that they want.  This is how you give it to them.

Using a Real Estate Blog Ghostwriter

Using a ghostwriter may be worth it if you don’t have the time and do have the money.  Article brings up an interesting point.  The Ghostwriter will be cheaper then a Pay Per Click Campaign but the writing will bring in more traffic over the long run.

Using the No Follow Tag: The Debate

Tag, Illustrated

No Follow is suppose to keep a page from being read by the search engines depending on the search engine (different search engines treat it different).

No Follow tag is currently being debated by the SEO community. Google is asking for opinions of how it should be used.

Some SEO experts use it to sculpt where page rank goes. (i.e. page rank will go to the link on your page that does not have the no follow). Some experts say you shouldn’t do it.

I have it on my Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions page on my website.

(Note: I have written this post from memory so definitely check out the experts to see what they say).

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Putting Listings On Your Blog

Oh, for goodness sakes! Of course you should blog listings | BloodhoundBlog: Real estate marketing and technology blog | Realtors and real estate, mortgages, lending, investments

Greg Swan says you should do it.  His reasoning is people are looking for homes, so give them homes!

He even gives a suggested layout for the blog blurb:

• Headline
• Photo
• Brief copy
• The “more” tag
• Many more photos
• Much more copy
• Links to relevant sites and documents

In his opinion, the Photo is the most important aspect of the “House
for Sale” post.  So make sure you take good photos or get a
professional.

Other suggestions for blog post include:

• News
• upcoming events
• community involvement

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Use Google Optimizer to Make Your Website Better

This is something I need to do because I have to many buttons on my homepage.  I have been using google analytics to see how clicks each button is getting … but I am not sure how many visitors should visit before I get a good sample size.

 1.  Create Adwords Account

• a.  Enter fake keywords & ad text
• b.  Leave payment details blank

 2.  Need to have Google Analytics account

3.  Use A/B Testing

Notes from Lenny de Rooy post on SEO Scoop

How to Create RSS in WordPress

Let’s say you only want updates for “marketing tips” from this blog– it’s as easy as 1,2,3:

1. click the category to get the Listing category URL that contains your listings (You needed to already have this)
2. add feed/ to the end of the URL
3. add that category feed URL to your feedreader. Done.

How to crete Recent Listing Widget on Your Sidebar in WordPress

1.  Take the feed, and placed in in one of those RSS sidebar widgets that WordPress provides.

Note:  At first, the widget would not except the feed. I’m not sure why. But then I reburned the feed through feedbuner.com, and it works great.

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