Real Estate Agent, Brokerage and Mortgage Blogs

Give me one week and I will make you a better real estate blogger. Its true. I am going to specifically lay out a sure fire way to boost your sites traffic in one week, guaranteed. This is not for the feign of heart, so if you dont have an extra hour or so to spare each day, you probably want to quit reading right here. Im going to show you how to generate backlinks, traffic and leads on content alone! Welcome to REBlogGirls blogging boot camp!

This program focuses on the holy trinity of blogging (the 3 Ls): Local Content, Link Bait & Lead Generation. 

• Local content are articles that directly relate and engage your local community. 

• Link bait articles are controversial or tutorial posts that incite reader commenting and backlinks

• Lead generation are posts that promote either subscription to your RSS feeds or prospective clients to contact you directly

Everything else there is to know about real estate blogging is somehow related to one of these three things.

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1. Write a link bait article for the real estate community

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How to use your blog to market your listings

If youre not building your network, youre losing money

1. Ping social networks and Google

Use Pingoat and Google Ping to automatically notify tons of social networks and Google that you have added new content to your site.

1. Syndicate your article on Real Estate Voices and Active Rain

I love these sites. Real Estate Voices is an aggregration site similar to Digg where you can syndicate a post and allow readers to vote on it. Active Rain is a great place to post fresh new content or excerpt posts from your outside blog to build a name for yourself among their almost 8,000+ user base of mostly real estate professionals.

1. Syndicate your article on Digg to the general business community
   

1. Comment on 5 industry blogs

Here is a good but not exhaustive list of solid blogs to comment on:

Bloodhound Blog (good blog roll you can use as a resource)

Future of Real Estate Marketing

RSS Pieces

Sellsius (good blog roll you can use as a resource)

Transparent Real Estate

1. Write a local content article that causes controversy

            New construction at an all time high as home prices fall: what it means for sellers

            New football stadium is a bad neighbor: how local home owners respond

1. Ping social networks and Google

Use Pingoat and Google Ping to automatically notify tons of social networks and Google that you have added new content to your site.

1. Comment on 5 local blogs that have decent traffic

Use Google Blog Search to find local blogs in your area. Dont just look for real estate blogs, look for blogs that already have tons of comments and seem to have an established community.

1. Send an email and invite clients, friends and family to visit your blog now that you should have at least 2 solid link bait posts up.

Read also:        Boost traffic with a blog war

1. Local content article that engages the community and incites participation

            Historic trivia tour of downtown Cape Coral

            Cape Coral trivia: name this downtown hotspot (insert photo in post and give hints)

            Page 6: Local congressman gets caught giving time to childrens charity (gossipy post about local celebrity or public figure)

            Test your real estate knowledge: find out how real estate savvy you are

1. Ping social networks and Google (same as step 2 from Monday)
2. Comment on 5 local blogs that have decent traffic (same as step 3 from Tuesday)

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1. General market tutorial link bait article

How to stage your home for a quick sale

Step by step guide to a successful closing

Are you preventing your home from selling?

1. Ping social networks and Google (same as step 2 from Monday)
2. Comment on 5 local blogs that have decent traffic (same as step 3 from Tuesday)

Read also:        How to Write Catchy Blog Titles

1. Local lead generation post (basically toot your own horn!- remember you are lead generating through content alone- very tricky)

            From unhappy FSBO to happy seller with Joe Smith, Realtor (Interview with a satisfied customer)

            Top 10 questions to ask your Realtor before contracting with her

1. Ping social networks and Google (same as step 2 from Monday)
2. Comment on 5 local blogs that have decent traffic (same as step 3 from Tuesday)

Read also:        Real estate blog writing 101

1. Hold a contest

Best Thanksgiving Day story contest

Funniest home selling experience contest: tell us your story!

1. Ping social networks and Google (same as step 2 from Monday)
2. Comment on 5 local blogs that have decent traffic (same as step 3 from Tuesday)

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