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Get Local News for Your Real Estate Blog
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Here’s another good resource for finding information to write about on your real estate blog. The source is a site called Outside.In. It’s a free resource that lets you know what is going on in cities, zip codes, and even neighborhoods.
Once on the Outside.In home page, just enter an address, city, neighborhood or zip code. You’ll be taken to a page showing the latest news in that area.
Then, you can also search by topic, so in the search box at the left, you can search for topics such as events, art, education, festival, restaurants, and the list goes on.
You’ll be presented with local information on the topics you’re interested in. And, don’t forget, you can always use keywords in a blog post. You could write something like: “When you purchase Atlanta real estate, you’ll be pleased to find that October is a busy month in the area.” Then, you can write about some upcoming events.
You can link “Atlanta real estate” to your website’s community page, for example, and at the end of the post, you could write “Review Atlanta homes for sale on our website!” , and link “Atlanta homes for sale” to your MLS search page. Your post could be put in a tag or category for Atlanta Real Estate as well as one similar to Events in Atlanta.
And, the possibilities are endless. You’d be better off using a smaller geographic area than Atlanta, of course, but you get the idea.
Enjoy!
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7 Tips to Make Your Blog SEO-Friendly
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A client recently asked how he could use his blog to pump up his website’s SEO. Blogs can have a very positive impact on your website’s SEO if you plan carefully.
7 Tips to Make Your Blog SEO-Friendly
1. Blog Frequently – Blog as often as you can.
2. Optimize Your Blog – Use On-Page Optimization for your blog pages. On your blog, you can put keyword phrases in your blog’s title, post titles, post content, category names, tag names and the ALT text of photos or images that you use in your posts.
3. Maintain a Focus – You can blog about anything you want. But, especially when you’re first starting up a blog, make the majority of your posts about real estate and your keywords. That focus will help the search engines understand the theme of your blog.
Too often you’ll see blogs with a wide range of categories, none of which contain any discernable keyword phrases. If you were marketing in Atlanta, for example, your categories should include things like Atlanta Real Estate, Recent Atlanta Homes for Sale, Atlanta Real Estate Market Updates, etc.
4. Link to Your Website – Use your blog as a way to get quality incoming links to the pages of your website. This is a great way to get deep links to the interior pages of your site. You can write about a variety of topics and link to your community pages, MLS search page, market condition page, etc. and it would make perfect sense within the post. Use good anchor text in your links to get the most from them.
5. Link to Outside Resources – You don’t want to put too many outgoing links in your posts, but 2 or 3 links to quality outside websites that can be helpful to your readers is a good idea. You may get a link in return, and the search engines will notice your choice of outgoing links, too.
6. Submit Your Blog to Blog Directories – One way to jump start your blog is to submit it to blog directories to help the search engines find it. Just do a search for real estate blog directory, and you’ll find quite a number of directories that focus on real estate blogs.
7. Advertise Your Posts – Set your blog up to “ping” Update Services. If you’re not familiar with pinging or Update Services, take a look at this explanation on the Wordpress site.
Typically, you can also increase the traffic to your blog by being active on other blogs. If you read and leave comments on other related blogs, that may bring visitors on that blog to yours. And, if you leave comments, very often other blog masters will return the favor.
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In an effort to make this blog as relevant to your needs as possible,
I’d like to know what’s on your mind.
In the right column, you’ll see this image:
And, below that, there’s a link to ask a question or suggest a topic for a future blog post. You can choose to have your name and a link to your website in the “answer post”, or you can remain anonymous.
So, what’s driving you crazy these days?
Drop me a line and I’ll let you know when a post concerning the issue you raise is being published!
I came across an interesting post over at Active Rain. It was written by John Novak – Las Vegas and Henderson NV Real Estate. He describes a new feature of Google search that I’ve never noticed.
Take a look at John’s post and you’ll find three ways to “drill down”, or look at a search in a way you may not have thought of on your own.
As John points out, the new Google features will help you to see what others are searching for that relate to your market – and you may find new things to blog about at the same time!
