Yeah, yeah, yeah¦ backlinks are important- the more hgih quality backlinks you have- the more Google trusts you. So, here is a quick list of sites you can submit to, list yourself in or comment on that will help to boost your real estate blogs rankings in the SERPs and build trust with Google. Every month I will give you 30 more backlink ideas. All sites I will provide will be free and non reciprocal backlinks unless otherwise noted.  Why didnt I include any blogs?  Simple, it is looking more and more like Google is discounting blog with an unnatural amount of incoming links form other blogs, so were going to stay away from that unless they have a huge PR and they dont have the no-follow tag turned on.

Read also: Ultimate guide to building backlinks

Resource: List of Do Follow Blogs to Comment on

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Got a real estate blog post that rocks the Kasbah and you want to post it to all the top social networks and news aggregators?  Then you need to check out Social Poster .  All you do, is enter in your logins and passwords for your profile at the social sites you are a member of and then put your post url, title, descriptive text and tags in and viola- your post is populated across the wild wild web. 

Now, should you post every article you pen to this tool?  NO! By posting every article you can get seen as a spammer and devalue your profile on the various networks, so when selecting posts to scatter to the web, choose only your best and ones that will be applicable to the national market not just your little corner of the world.  That way you will build the value of your profile by only sending high quality content and increase the likelihood that your posts will do well on those networks. 

The key to getting lots of ‘Diggs’ or other types of votes on the  different networks is to build your sphere of influence by voting or commenting on other peoples posts on those networks.  Why would you want to do this?  One post on the front page of Digg is enough to generate the kind of traffic to your site that could conceivable overwhelm your server.  Now, unless you are on some junky hosted solution that would crash under this load, THIS IS A GOOD THING.  You want your site in the crosshairs of more eyeballs. 

So, the takeaway from this post is- step outside of the real estate space from time to time by using the big social networks and generate some new traffic and eyeballs from unexpected places.

Real Estate Leads company, HomeGain, introduces the HomeGain Agent Blogs while company front man, Maxs life is spinning out of control.  Homegains agent blogs are an interesting breed.  I am inclined to agree with Greg Swans observation that blogs that focus on getting agents to connect with consumers through real estate focused content so they can generate more leads themselves is a wise move.  The product is a value add to HomeGains primary lead services.

Read also:HomeGain.com adds a weblogging platform for its clients

In the wake of this very public launch, Max, HomeGains front monkey started throwing around his celebrity status.  Little birds have seeded the idea that friends and family are planning an intervention to help the troubled star kick his all consuming banana pulp addiction.

Read More: about the HomeGain Agent Blogs: press release and blog post.

RSS Pieces introduces a native form builder in our real estate blog platform. Every real estate and mortgage business has different outlooks on what type of information they want to collect from their website visitors, so, we built a fully customizable form builder right into the back end of our system so you can start generating more real estate leads with completely customizable data collection. This system is so simple, you can build a 20 field form in under 10 minutes.  All you need to know is how to click a mouse and the type of data you want to collect.  Just check out the tutorial at the bottom of this post.  This is a standard feature of every RSS Pieces blog.

Who is using RSS Pieces Custom Form Builder to generate more real estate leads?

Jeff Belonger, FHA Loan Officer

Jeff is using the form builder to collect basic loan application information. His form which has over 20 fields took less than 10 minutes to build.

John Carr, Toronto Real Estate Professional

John is using the form builder to collect Comparative Analysis information. Within 1 day of posting his new form, he had his first lead through it.

The form builder is so versatile that I create all my forms for ordering ebooks and SEO reports through it.

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Its a sensational title, isnt it? It is also now a fact, one Realtor, Cyndee Haydon of Clearwater Beach Real Estate, armed with only rudimentary white hat SEO information and an unparalleled dedication to success, took a brand new blog to the top of Google and a PageRank 5 in less than 3 months. The good news is, her success can be replicated. In February, Cyndee moved a version of her WordPress blog to the RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog platform after the WordPress version fell out of the search engines for many prime terms due to some structual faults and an ill configured plugin.

Clearwater Beach Real Estate Blog Statistics

• First Page Placement:Clearwater Real Estate
• Indexed Pages: 219
• Google Links: 58
• Yahoo Links: 1,600
• .EDU Links: 79
• .GOV Links: 1

The Timeline

• Feb 11, 2008 Purchases a keyword rich domain
• Feb 12, 2008 www.clearwaterrealestatetampahomes.com goes live
• February 13, 2008 Import content from WordPress Blog (Cyndee had almost 200 keyword rich real estate focused posts)
• February 14+ Keyword rich content is added, high quality backlinks are built

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