I’ve seen a lot of bad behavior lately in the blogosphere, so I want to remind everyone how to behave properly and play nicely. I’m not going to name names or point fingers, but if you’re guilty, you’ll know it. Unless, of course, your conscience is either broken or on vacation. In that case, you should probably just move along to the next site that you visit daily, because clearly, I cannot help you! For more commandments geared towards commenting, I recommend that you check out Brown Baron’s Ten Commandments of Blog Commenting. In the meantime, here's my set of rules for getting along in blogland:

Part 18 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Equity Acceleration programs to being a blogging buddy.  See how Realtors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas. 180 down, 185 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go!

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Think of this as the Blog-tionary. Each week, I’ll give you a new term so you can broaden your horizons and enhance your vocabulary.   You’ll need a larger vocabulary anyway, to go with your fabulous new grammar skills. Plus, now you’ll be able to talk tech at your next family function, and truly earn yourself the title of “My Cousin the Computer Geek”.

This week’s term: Trackbacks  

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Part 17 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from writing a local bug guide to asking St. Joseph to help sell your house.  See how Realtors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas. 170 down, 195 ¼ real estate blog content ideas left to go!

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Think of this as the Blog-tionary. Each week, I’ll give you a new term so you can broaden your horizons and enhance your vocabulary.   You’ll need a larger vocabulary anyway, to go with your fabulous new grammar skills. Plus, now you’ll be able to talk tech at your next family function, and truly earn yourself the title of “My Cousin the Computer Geek”. 

This week’s term: Backlinks 

Broken down, backlinks are links to your site from other sites. The links I used here are backlinks. I used them to reference information that I thought was pretty nifty, and when you click on them, they help the other sites in the search engines. How nice of me!  You have to have a good solid strategy for building links from other sites back to yours or else you can pretty much kiss climbing the SERPs “bye bye.”

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