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- Link lovin' on the Trulia Video of RETech South
Rudy, the Trulia Guru (yeah, it actually says Guru on his business card - that is too cool) was such a doll at RETech South that he shot some great candid video of speakers and hosts behind the scenes.
- RETech South Was a Huge Success
For those of you that were not at RETech South in Atlanta, GA, you missed out. Almost unbelievably Brad Nix and Matt Fagioli put together a full technology conference covering blogging, SEO, social networking, widgets, video and IDX services in less than a month.
- Happy Easter
Happy Easter
- RSS Pieces Events and Webinar Calendar
RSS Pieces Events and Webinar Calendar
- Mary McKnight Calls Greg Swann "Nicole Richie", seriously, I did that!
Humans are emotional junkies and the more outrageous you are the more people will flock to you. Why? Because engaging is sometimes enraging! People love to be happy, mad, sad.
- WebEx Malfunction: re-do tomorrow at 2PM
Ouch… WebEx went wonky and wouldn’t let us in… So, I have rescheduled for tomorrow, same time, 2PM EST.
- Week of Jan 28: Blog and SEO Webinar Training Schedule
Week of Jan 28: Blog and SEO Webinar Training Schedule :: Social Networking and SEO Mistakes
- Real Estate Blogs by RSS Pieces
Buy a real estate blog thta generates leads today
- RSS Pieces wishes you a Merry Christmas
All of us at RSS Pieces wish you a merry Christmas filled with joy and laughter
- Happy Halloween from the RSS Pieces Team
Halloween also known as All Hollows Eve is a time for costumes, candy, Jack-O-Lanterns, bon fires, parties, and much more.
- God Bless Our Friends in Southern California
Our thoughts and prayers are with all the real estate bloggers, friends and families we have in the Southern California area.
- The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed
The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed
- RSS Pieces Appoints Scott Lockhart as New President
RSS Pieces, a provider of top-rated real estate blogging products, today announced it has appointed Scott Lockhart to the position of President, effective September 1, 2007.
- RealTyger: the other other real estate desktop and social network
RealTyger, first and foremost, is a cache of online real estate tools designed to completely manage your online presence from SEO and listings to lead generation and drip campaigns.
- Happy Fourth of July!
Happy Fourth of July!
- Are you Looking Down the Long End of a Cybersquatting Law Suit?
Ever buy a competitors domain or one extremely similar to it or even a misspelled version, then redirect that site to your own? If so, you very well may be looking at a law suit.
- Sunday Fun: American Idol Sweetheart, Baby V, Takes on RSS Pieces
Up to this point, weve never really felt the need to ‘out’ our higher profile clients publically on this blog. However, that all changed when Melodic Records walked through our door with none other than Baby V (AKA Vonzell Solomon) of American Idol, Season 4.
- For Immediate Release - Mary McKnight to Speak at Inman News Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007
For Immediate Release - Mary McKnight to Speak at Inman News Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007
- Carnival of Real Estate: Real Estate Blog Pageant
This ain’t no pattin’ Realtors on the back Carnival, this is the real deal. Because of the overwhelming number of real estate blog submissions we received and the fact we wanted to make this a real pagent with only a handful of deserving winners, our panel of judges battled it out to come up with one overall winner and only 5 runners up.
- Things Losers Say: AdSense and Affiliate Programs Don’t Work
There’s no reason that your real estate blog has to be a drain on your finances or time. Truth be told, monetizing your blog is a good idea. It will boost your income when times are good and carry you when the real estate market lulls.
- WHAT WE’VE been up to
Today marks the roll out of our new and improved look along with a solid committment to fresh, relevant and controversial real estate content.
- New features
New features in our blogging platform
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 4
Part 4 in this compendium of real estate blog ideas is chock full of ideas that are designed to spark participation and engage readers emotionally like taxes, politics and blog wars.
- Real E Space: T Minus 7
Just in case you missed the subtle announcement on our the X Broker’s blog, Real E Space is counting down the days until their Founders Banquet on April 3rd in Dallas
- Inman Bloggers Conference
Just in case you somehow missed the announcement on Inman or RainCity, get ready for a blogging industry event on March 5th.
- Drive local traffic with reviews and interviews
If there is one thing you can count on to spark a localized viral or word of mouth campaign for your real estate blog it is an interview or a review of a local business.
- Guide to a successful real estate blog launch
I’ve been providing this quick checklist to our clients for months now, but why keep it under wraps, there are plenty of other bloggers that could benefit from it!
- Is your blog sleeping with the fishes?
Needless to say, it
- Shhh, is your blog full of
Like American Idol judge, Simon Cowell would say,
- Feed your real estate blog to the dogs
One of the best pieces of advice I can give you about your real estate blog is that it doesn
- RSS Pieces announces Blog Swap
The December 19th 2006 event will bring together 28 of the most influential real estate bloggers for the Internet equivalent of a Yankee Swap.
- Redfin enters blog swap!
Calling out to all real estate bloggers, Redfin has entered RSS Pieces Yankee Blog Swap and we are looking for a worthy adversary for the big R.
- RSS Pieces welcomes Jack Slocum
RSS Pieces is proud to announce that Jack is now an official part of our core development team.
- RSS Pieces wishes you Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving from RSS Pieces
- CONTEST: funniest real estate story
Most of us have that one boss or co-worker that pops to mind when you hear the term
- 10-23-06 Carnival of Real Estate
Check us out baby, we are featured on Carnival of Real Estate
- LOOK WHO’S TALKING about myRealtyBlog
See what other Real Estate and Technology blogs, websites and news portals are saying about myRealtyBlog
- MYREALTYBLOG launches
RSS Pieces announces launch of myRealtyBlog
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An RSS Pieces blog doesnt have to look like a run of the mill blog. An RSS Pieces blog can look and function like a conventional website but have the advantages of a blog and also the sparkle of a multimedia website.
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- Real Estate Radio Shows Featuring 1ParkPlace and BrokerIPTV
I had the pleasure to meet the Barrys on Saturday at one of their Realtor seminars at Miami University.
- 2008 New Year’s Resolutions for our Realtor Blog
What are your blogging New Year’s resolutions?
- Ultimate guide to real estate blog copyrighting
When is comes to online copyrights, I see a lot of real estate bloggers breaking the law by using copyrighted images and sometimes flat out plagiarizing content.
- Almost Famous: how to create viral video
Think you have the cajones to add YouTube to your advertising arsenal? Find out if you can stomach what it takes to be a viral video vixen, with this 5 step program.
- How to embed YouTube Videos in your blog
YouTube is hot and it has tons of local videos that could punch up your blog posts.
- PODCAST: RETS2 and you
RETS is a behind the scenes technology your IDX or web company uses to import MLS data. RETS helps keep the data uniform as MLS information varies substantially between providers.
- PODCAST: Damion Flynn, MS Realtor
Meet Damion Flynn, Realtor by day, technical guru by night.
- PODCAST: Hearing Real Estate Voices
Meet the man behind Real Estate Voices, a news aggregator for the real estate industry.
- ULTIMATE GUIDE to podcasting, Part 2
You can start your own high-quality Podcast show today by investing as little as $60 and 30 minutes of your time.
- ActiveRain Talks Social Networking
Want a behind the scenes look at Active Rain? Check out REBlogGirl’s interview with Matt Heatton.
- HOT STUFF: Sellsius
Hey all, this is my interview with Real Estate Technobitionists, Sellsius
- REAL ESTATE podcasting, part 1
Learn the basics of Podcasting, why real estate agents should be doing it, how to implement a podcast and what options are available to you for recording and publishing.
- RSS Marketing
- Interviews
- Online Training Seminars
- Realtor Web Marketing
- 365 Real Estate Blog Ideas
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Idea’s, 22
Part 22 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from how to attack the foreclosure topic to how to target specific prospect markets witquickie glossary posts.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 21
Part 19 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from gearing some of your writing to college students, thanksgiving, and writing more details about your neighborhoods.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 20
Part 20 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from covering National issues such as cancer, to the obvious for the month of October, HALLOWEEN.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 19
Part 19 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from the awesome gadgets you have lying around to planning a party for the new neighbors.
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 18
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 18
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 17
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 17
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 16
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 16
- A Years Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas
Ever get writers block when trying to come up with hot topics for your real estate blog? Well, you’re not alone, so here is the complete list (so far) of blogging topics for real estate.
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 14
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 14
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 13
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 13
- Blog Glossary
- Real Estate Blogs
- Social Networking Tool of the Month: Social Poster
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 .
- HomeGain Introduces Real Estate Agent Blogs, Max Goes Ape
Real Estate Leads company, HomeGain, introduces the HomeGain Agent Blogs while company front man, Maxs life is spinning out of control.
- Should you use a ghost blogger to help build content for your real estate blog?
Have you ever considered that your time might be better spent actually interfacing with buyers and sellers or writing offers and contracts than writing on your blog?
- How to use demographics to craft real estate blog posts that target your readers
Understand the differences in home buyers/sellers from a demographics and psychographics standpoint and how you can use that data to craft real estate blog posts that resonate with various generations.
- How to start a real estate blog
Leading blog provider, RSS Pieces put together this 44 page document on how to start a real estate blog.
- Real Estate Blogger of the Month | Lake Norman Realtor | Diane Aurit
Real Estate Blogger of the Month: Lake Norman Realtor: Diane Aurit
- 10 Worst Fortune 500 Blogs
OK, you know I wouldn’t have put up the 10 best Fortune 500 blogs if I wasn’t willing to put up the 10 worst. And let me tell you, the following blogs need to turn off the lights and say
- Real Estate blogs are stores, not newspapers - so blog like you are selling houses, not writing for your local paper
The entire point of this post is to get you to understand that if your business is about real estate and you want to attract customers that have a real estate need you MUST write about real estate not skateboards and restaurants.
- 1 Month of blog topics: Ultimate guide to building real estate blog content that gets results
The first month of your real estate blog’s life is actually the most important. So, I thought I would put together a fail safe way to construct content that is hyper local, rich in information and will form the foundation of a successful blog.
- Spider Posts: How to write efficiently on your real estate blog: make one blog post last for a week
Writing a real estate blog should not become your full time job, it is simply one tool among many you should use to build and grow your business. In order to be a successful Realtor, you need to use each of your marketing and lead generation tools effectively and efficiently.
- Driving qualified traffic to your site through the search engines will increase your traffic to lead conversion ratio
You are a Realtor. So, you need to write highly focused real estate content if you want to be found through the search engines for terms related to real estate.
- Generate 100+ More Quality Real Estate Leads per Month by Feeding Your Blog RSS Feeds from the MLS
On the flip side of that, a Realtor that blogs daily, Greg Neuman is generating 100+ more real estate leads per month just from just his RSS feeds.
- Confessions of a Real Estate Blog Link Whore: Trackback Spam Hurts
trackbacks, spam
- Mary McKnight Calls Greg Swann "Nicole Richie", seriously, I did that!
Humans are emotional junkies and the more outrageous you are the more people will flock to you. Why? Because engaging is sometimes enraging! People love to be happy, mad, sad.
- What can Britney Spears teach you about writing a great real estate blog post?
Writing headlines is what blogging is all about. The number one rule of copywriting is: every single sentence is designed to make you read the next one. So, if you can engage the reader in your headline, they will be more likely to read that first sentence of your blog post.
- Being consistent on your real estate blog is only a virtue if you're not a screw up: how to be consistant and successful
Consistancy is the name of the game when it comes to real estate blogging, you need to be consistant in your topic, keywords, posting frequency and article formats.
- Top 5 reasons why I hate chiclets on your real estate blog
Even the best of bloggers succumb to the occasional chicklet or two, but 10, 20 little icons in your sidebar or footer, it’s a little excessive, don’t you think?
- Top 6 Widgets for a Real Estate Blog
Top 6 Widgets for a Real Estate Blog
- Week of Jan 21, 2008: SEO and Blogging Webinar Schedule
Join me for a 30 minute webinar to learn how you can achieve the kind of success clients like Laurie Manny, Ines Garcia, Marc Blasi and Brian Brady have by reaching page 1 of Google for short tail keywords in less than 4 months.
- Goal setting for bloggers: how to build a popular real estate blog
You must set goals and track your progress in order to reach your blogging potential.
- 45% of all blogs sleep with the fishes within 3 months: how to keep yours alive and kicking
Blogs are like the Cosa Nostra of websites. They are connected to one another, bribe their way up the search engine results and peddle their wares to readers…
- 2008 New Year’s Resolutions for our Realtor Blog
What are your blogging New Year’s resolutions?
- RSS Pieces wishes you a Merry Christmas
All of us at RSS Pieces wish you a merry Christmas filled with joy and laughter
- How to write a killer real estate blog about page
Your About Page should be written in a warm and inviting tone that reads easily and is full of information about you, your passion for real estate, your accomplishments in the field and experience with buyers and sellers.
- Blogging to your own drummer will hurt you: the curse of improvisational real estate blogging
There is a formula to successful business blogging, but so often I see Realtors straying from it and basically, blogging to their own drummer with highly personal rants and cutesy posts.
- Happy Halloween from the RSS Pieces Team
Halloween also known as All Hollows Eve is a time for costumes, candy, Jack-O-Lanterns, bon fires, parties, and much more.
- Google Slaps Real Estate Blogs in Latest PageRank Update
Google Slaps Real Estate Blogs in Latest PageRank Update
- How to get your real estate blog noticed: why being bold is key to traffic and loyal readership
You MUST be bold, brazen, controversial, insightful, funny and most importantly, USEFUL to build loyal traffic for your real estate blog.
- The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed
The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed
- Social Bookmarking to be or not to be
Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to submit their favorite websites/posts to a public web site.
- Sellsius Announces 2007 Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers
We would like to congratulate Ines Hegedus-Garcia of Miamism and Laurie Manny of Long Beach Real Estate Home on being named by Sellsius as part of the Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers!
- Real Estate Blog SEO Tip of the Week: Sitemaps
A sitemap is a complete resource guide for readers and search engines including a list and description of each page on a site.
- Why Should the Realtors BLOG?
On Friday I attended BLOGORLANDO and inspired I learned so much. One important thing I learned was that my instincts about Blogging and Real Estate are right on track.
- How to Dress Your Real Estate Blog for Success!
Real Estate Professionals often find building their Real Estate BLOG as an overwhelming process; there are so many posts to be written, where does one start?
- Generate leads from testimonials on your real estate blog in 5 simple steps
Any good Realtor knows that word of mouth marketing through testimonials is by far the best, easiest and cheapest way to grow your business.
- The Ten Commandments of Blogging and Commenting
The Ten Commandments of Blogging and Commenting
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 18
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 18
- Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Trackbacks
Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Trackbacks
- How to generate leads from your real estate blog: we have proof
Ever wonder how you generate leads from your real estate blog or your website for that matter?
- How to Write Flagship Content for Your Real Estate Blog
Flagship/Cornerstone content should actually make a readers life better, richer, easier, faster¦ Something that they search for in Google to find you by or something that directly benefits them.
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 17
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 17
- Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Backlinks
Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Backlinks
- Chillin With Joe, Rudy and the Blog Tour RV
Chillin With Joe, Rudy and the Blog Tour RV
- Is Writing Quality Real Estate Blog Content Like Pulling Teeth?
Quality content for the real estate consumer or potential consumer is more about providing them with useful, entertaining and relevant information than penning post after post of market reports.
- Increase Daily Traffic to YOUR Real Estate Blog
Often I get the question from clients
- Is the Blogroll on Your Real Estate Blog Damaging Your Street Cred?
Is the Blogroll on Your Real Estate Blog Damaging Your Street Cred?
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 15
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 15
- Starting a Controversy on Your Real Estate Blog to Drive Traffic
Starting a Controversy on Your Real Estate Blog to Drive Traffic
- Duplicate Content Filters Explained: Why Your Personal Blog and ActiveRain Blog Can Have Duplicate Content
One of the most misunderstood concepts in the real estate blogosphere and SEO is what duplicate content filters are and how they affect your real estate blog or website.
- The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part III
The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part III
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 12
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 12
- The Weekly Whiskey Tango Foxtrot of Blogs - Scout Hates You
The Weekly Whiskey Tango Foxtrot of Blogs - Scout Hates You
- Who Are You? A Glimpse into the Many Personalities of Real Estate Bloggers
Who Are You? A Glimpse into the Many Personalities of Real Estate Bloggers
- You Can’t Un-Steal a Car: Copyright Infringement in the Real Estate Blogosphere
RSS Pieces intends to prosecute Copyright Theft to the fullest extent that the law will allow, both in Criminal and Civil courts.
- Live Real Estate Blog Assistance with MEEbo
Ever needed that extra bit of training on your real estate blog?
- A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 11
A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 11
- The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part II
The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part II
- What do Technoratis Top 100 Blogs Have in Common? And what can a real estate blog learn from them?
You’ll be suprised at some of the things you’ll learn, like having a white background may be necessity for success, font selection does matter and 79% of the top 100 blogs out there monetize themselves.
- The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part I
The Most Commom (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors
- A year’s worth of real estate blog ideas, 10
A year’s worth of real estate blog ideas, 10
- A year’s worth of real estate blog ideas, 9
A year’s worth of real estate blog ideas, 9
- How to Increase RSS Subscribers on your Real Estate Blog
Hi my name is Jessica M. a.k.a Blog Diva!
- Carnival of Real Estate: Real Estate Blog Pageant
This ain’t no pattin’ Realtors on the back Carnival, this is the real deal. Because of the overwhelming number of real estate blog submissions we received and the fact we wanted to make this a real pagent with only a handful of deserving winners, our panel of judges battled it out to come up with one overall winner and only 5 runners up.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 8
Part 8 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from link building with ultimate guide posts to creating your own glossary of terms for the industry.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 7
Part 7 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from increasing participation on your blog to taking readers on a trip to a local attraction like a Zoo or a Museum.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 6
See how Realtors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 5
Part 5 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from homeowners insurance and natural disasters to blogging listings and local business news.
- Google drops blogs. Are you a victim?
As many of you may know by now, any blog under a Page Rank 6 was dropped from Google’s primary index.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 4
Part 4 in this compendium of real estate blog ideas is chock full of ideas that are designed to spark participation and engage readers emotionally like taxes, politics and blog wars.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 3
Part 3 in this month long series covers real estate blog ideas from establishing yourself as a local expert to building authority as a problem solver.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 2
Part 2 in this huge series covers real estate blog ideas from humor to fear, myth busting to secret telling.
- A Year’s Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, I
A years worth of blogging ideas for real estate: 364¼ topics for real estate bloggers to plunder with plenty of great examples from Realtors that have already had success with the ideas.
- Real E Space: T Minus 7
Just in case you missed the subtle announcement on our the X Broker’s blog, Real E Space is counting down the days until their Founders Banquet on April 3rd in Dallas
- Ultimate guide to real estate blog copyrighting
When is comes to online copyrights, I see a lot of real estate bloggers breaking the law by using copyrighted images and sometimes flat out plagiarizing content.
- Is your SEO charging you too much?
Find out how to SEO your real estate blog or website on a shoestring budget.
- How to get banned by Google
How to get banned by Google
- Almost Famous: how to create viral video
Think you have the cajones to add YouTube to your advertising arsenal? Find out if you can stomach what it takes to be a viral video vixen, with this 5 step program.
- How to embed YouTube Videos in your blog
YouTube is hot and it has tons of local videos that could punch up your blog posts.
- Drive local traffic with reviews and interviews
If there is one thing you can count on to spark a localized viral or word of mouth campaign for your real estate blog it is an interview or a review of a local business.
- Re-inventing the real estate blog with listings
Dont let your blog get bloated with tools that simply wont work to build your business. It is just as easy to embed quality, real estate tools directly into your blog as it is to install a plugin that has little to no business value.
- Guide to a successful real estate blog launch
I’ve been providing this quick checklist to our clients for months now, but why keep it under wraps, there are plenty of other bloggers that could benefit from it!
- Out of the Box Spam Hits MyBlogLog
Just like every other social network, MyBlogLog is not immune to its fair share of spam. Why, just this morning, I had an invitation to co-author another blog from MyBlogLog
- Canonicalization: getting it right
Now that you have a basic understanding of canonicalization let
- HTML Validation: the hidden key to SEO
How many of you have ever made a typo in a post or posted some bad grammar or a spelling mistake? Well, developers do the same thing.
- What seperates a blog from a website?
There are four primary things a blog does inherently that a website simply won’t
- Using Celebrity to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
Celebreality sells. The juicy details of the most tragic lives are what we gobble up with our less than silver spoons. So, use it.
- The search for Jim Gray
Jim Gray is missing and of all companies Amazon is the one taking the lead.
- Is your blog sleeping with the fishes?
Needless to say, it
- Link Bait Idea: Crazy Laws in America
Hey, there are days when you don
- Canonicalization: is it killing your website?
Canonicalization is a file methodology that exposes a flaw in the modern search engine and the way it indexes websites.
- Long tail, short tail and coat tail searches
Long tail refers to a very specific set of searches that have statistical relevance to your prime terms.
- Shhh, is your blog full of
Like American Idol judge, Simon Cowell would say,
- PODCAST: RETS2 and you
RETS is a behind the scenes technology your IDX or web company uses to import MLS data. RETS helps keep the data uniform as MLS information varies substantially between providers.
- Feed your real estate blog to the dogs
One of the best pieces of advice I can give you about your real estate blog is that it doesn
- Does your blogroll suck?
Blogrolls are nothing more than glorified link farms and that is exactly what Google sees them as.
- Do you have a stick up your blog
So, pull that stick out of your blog and shake things up, write like you are Mr. or Ms. Personality by following these 5 simple blog writing rules
- Learn How To SEO Your Blog
RSS Pieces has a sure fire system that will guarantee that your real estate blog starts getting searched and indexed more often.
- Learn How to Market Your Blog
RSS Pieces has a sure fire blog marketing system that will guarantee that your real estate blog is a success.
- Learn How To Blog for Real Estate
RSS Pieces has a sure fire system that will guarantee that your real estate blog is a success.
- Welcome New Real Estate Blogs
Want to see some of the latest real estate blogs to join the RSS Pieces family?
- Formula for a successful real estate blog post
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a sure fire formula for writing killer real estate blog posts that drive huge targeted traffic and search engine interest?
- 2007 REBA Awards
RSS Pieces is proud to announce that our little site has been nominated for a 2007 REBA award by Housing Wire.
- New Year’s Resolutions for Your Blog
Here are 10 resolutions you can use to build your brand, traffic and leads online in 2007.
- 2006 best real estate bloging posts
With our first year over, RSS Pieces thought we’d take a look back through our 2006 stats and see which real estate blog articles had the most readership
- How to drive local traffic to your blog
What the savvy real estate blogger wants is big LOCAL blog traffic.
- Increase blog subscribers with 7 easy steps
Your RSS feed is your way of making sure that your visitors keep returning to your site and reading your content. Learn how to increase RSS subscribers.
- Real estate blog rookie mistakes
Knowing what they are and how to avoid them will ensure that your new real estate blog survives and thrives on the wild wild web.
- The first 3 days of blog life
It would be interesting to chronicle the first few days of YankeeBlogSwap.com to show people what an RSS Pieces blog can do
- The New Marketing Paradigm
I thought I would bring to the table a new marketing paradigm that might help you understand why it is all so important.
- Online Event Marketing Tips
You can coordinate some pretty successful online events if you just put your out of the box thinking cap on.
- To pay or not to pay: professional bloggers
So, here are the facts I feel you should know when hiring a real estate blogger.
- Tag, I’m it! Paul Chaney Memed Me.
I was memed this morning by my friend and competitor, Paul Chaney of Blogging Systems.
- Are you contagious? Viral Marketing 101
Get your vaccinations and slip on the body condom, we are about to tour the infectious world of viral marketing.
- Build credibility with tutorial marketing
Nothing drives traffic and subscribers better than a good tutorial post.
- Predatory Blogging
Your blog is your secret lair where you lure your prey so you can go in for the kill.
- Ultimate guide to blog marketing
So, here is my ultimate guide to marketing your real estate blog.
- Is toothpaste holding your blog together?
Most blogs out there lack the substance needed to support healthy lead generation.
- Using links to retain visitors & generate leads
Using links properly can increase real estate blog visitor retention, leads, search positioning and even PageRank.
- The Real Estate Yankee Blog Swap
On Tuesday, December 19th, the real estate blogosphere will be turned on its head when 20 of the industrys top bloggers swap blogs for a day.
- Killing me softly with your blog
Are you killing your blog by lecturing your reader? Does your blog put readers to sleep?
- What is on my bookshelf?
Recommended blogging books for real estate bloggers.
- How to write a blog that generates leads
In order to influence people into contacting you and feeling compelled to use your service over every other real estate agent in your area, you must establish 3 things:
- The lazy man’s guide to real estate blogging
So, we seek out the tips, tricks and shortcuts that make things like blogging easier. These are a few ideas for the
- 10 Features of Successful Blogs
Successful blogs all have one thing in common: they strike the perfect balance between a good user interface with intuitive functionality and great content.
- Using Social Bookmarks to Promote Your Blog
Learn how to use social bookmarks and social news sites to promote your blog.
- Pimp my blog: become a guilty pleasure
Yo, yo, yo, it
- Top 10 Best SEO Web Tools
A list of 10 of my favorite free web-based SEO tools that will help you to SEO your site like a pro.
- Ultimate Guide to Branding a Real Estate Blog
You might be USDA Prime as a Realtor but if your brand doesn
- Funny real estate story winner
Well, there were plenty of entries to this contest for the funniest real estate experience. And here are the winners.
- 12 steps for managing blog addiction
Here is my blogging addiction enabler post: 12 Step Program to Managing Your Addiction.
- Do you know the 6 signs of blog death?
There are 6 sure fire ways to spot blog death and you need to know them before it is too late.
- MYTH: single property websites drive traffic
Realtors
- NAR in the rearview: real estate rocks!
You put 25,000 real estate professionals into one city and you are bound to have some fun. And that is exactly what happened.
- Book Review: Realty Blogging
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- NAR Highlights
So, for those of you that did not make the trip to NAR, here is a brief recap of yesterday’s events.
- 7 DAY PLAN to real estate blog success
I am going to specifically lay out a sure fire way to boost your site
- What Madonna can teach you about blogging
Be a blogging maverick by
- HOW MUCH IS your blog worth?
Your website should MAKE money not TAKE money by directly generating income from Google AdSense or an affiliate program.
- GUERRILLA BLOGGING: marketing strategy
I use Guerrilla Marketing strategies in every blog. It helps with lead conversion and building trust.
- THE RULES of commenting for traffic
Commenting is an art form and when you use it drive traffic back to your blog you are bound by the rules of professional courtesy.
- PLAN A BLOG WAR for increased traffic
A real estate blog is a marketing tool and marketing IS a science that can be managed methodically.
- HANDLING the angry blogger
You
- BOOST TRAFFIC 40% in 1 hour/day
Learn how marketing your blog properly will increase traffic by 40%, page rank by 500% and boost your Alexa rank into the top 100,000 of all sites on the internet.
- HOW TO AVOID the bipolar blog
When you are writing for the web, you must stay focused and on-topic
- TOP 5 SECRETS of successful blogs
Let
- WHAT TO EXPECT from your realty blog
Websites are marketing tools, just about every source on the World Wide Web agrees that the purpose of a website is to generate business through getting more
- DON’T GET CAUGHT lying on your blog
The content you create has authority because you have credibility so be truthful in your posts.
- Blog on the road
How to publish to your blog while you are on the road
- TRAFFIC DRIVING blog titles
No matter how good your content is, if you don
- HUMANIZING your blog for intimacy
logging is a very personal media channel. People want to learn more about you, your expertise and your life.
- Why you must have a blog by January 07
Because of the huge increase in blog subscribers the January release will cause, those Realtors with established, well-written blogs will benefit greatest, so there is a growing urgency for Realtors and Lenders to start blogging.
- HOT BLOG TIP: blog carnivals
The hottest thing in blogging today is marketing your blog is blog carnivals.
- MARKETING TO GOOGLE with directories
How to market your blog to Google through free directory listings.
- ActiveRain Community
For agents not in the know, ActiveRain is a huge community of real estate agents, brokers, lenders, buyers and sellers.
- Combining the Realtor blog and website
Fact is that if you unify your blog and website you will not have to manually market your blog/site as much because the search engines will do it for you.
- THE REALTOR blog fatal flaw
To really maximize your traffic, the blog and the website should be on the same domain and sub-domain.
- REAL ESTATE blog writing 101
This article is a very specific guide to successful real estate blogging.
- WHY REALTORS should use rss
Cold hard fact is, if you aren
- BLOGS THAT make money
Theres no reason that your real estate website or blog has to be a drain on your finances or time. Truth be told, monetizing your blog is a good idea
- WHY REALTORS should blog
Why Realtors should blog.
- BEST AND WORST real estate blogs
This article will give you some expamples of good and bad real estate blogs.
- TURN YOURSELF into an expert
As a Realtor, you have local, market and property information that no one else has so blog all about it.
- BACKLINK STRATEGY for realtors
The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website
- ULTIMATE GUIDE to a real estate blog site
Here is a list of important things to know and questions to ask your developer before embarking on a real estate website
- BLOG vs website
Let’s take a look at how the traditional websitehas evolved into a blog.
- WEB MARKETING in slow times
So, it shouldn
- LINK BAIT for Realtors
Learn what link bait is, how it will benefit your site and what the best Realtor link bait strategies are.
- MYREALTYBLOG wins mashup award
Wanna learn why you need a mashup on your real estate website to drive real sustainable traffic?
- 5 TIPS TO BLOG for local traffic
Let
- REALTORS and web marketing
Real Estate Agents are moving more of their advertising budgets into Web Marketing.
- THE PROBLEM with canned content
Most search engine’s indexing systems recognize duplicate content across the web and the one that had it on their site gets the credit for it
- WHAT IS A trackback?
TrackBacks are a way to communicate between blogs
- WHAT TO LOOk for in seo
How to select a good SEO consultant
- TOP WEB tools for agents
What keeps a buyer coming back to your website?
- HOW TO MAKE MONEY on a blog
How to make money on your blog with affiliate programs and Google Adsense.
- HOW TO BLOG for local traffic
To drive local traffic, talk about buying and selling homes as it relates to your local area.
- TRAFFIC DRIVING content
The quality of the traffic you generate is just as important as the quantity when it comes to using Google AdSense.
- DRIVING TRAFFIC with the Zillow API
So, what
- BLOGGING for real estate
Using a blog to invest in your future
- CONVERT ONLINE leads to sales
Working to live not living to work.
- HOW TO WRITE a realtor blog
When it comes to blogging, the key to success is creating valuable content that your buyers want to read.
- 10 TIPS FOR REALTY site stickiness
Let’s just say that you have a realty website or a blogsite and you drive tons of traffic, if your site isn’t sticky, you won’t drive sales.
- RE-INVENTING THE real estate blog
Blogs seemed to climb in the search engine results organically, often out placing established websites.
- NOT ENOUGH time to blog
- WHY REPLACE a conventional website?
This article details the reason you should dump your website and switch to an RSS Pieces blog.
- RSS PIECES blogs
The Fueled Software Blog System automatically SEOs all new content to 100% search engine relevancy for guaranteed increases in traffic and search engine results positioning
- Real Estate Leads
- Real Estate Websites
- How to use demographics to craft real estate blog posts that target your readers
Understand the differences in home buyers/sellers from a demographics and psychographics standpoint and how you can use that data to craft real estate blog posts that resonate with various generations.
- 1 Month of blog topics: Ultimate guide to building real estate blog content that gets results
The first month of your real estate blog’s life is actually the most important. So, I thought I would put together a fail safe way to construct content that is hyper local, rich in information and will form the foundation of a successful blog.
- Generate 100+ More Quality Real Estate Leads per Month by Feeding Your Blog RSS Feeds from the MLS
On the flip side of that, a Realtor that blogs daily, Greg Neuman is generating 100+ more real estate leads per month just from just his RSS feeds.
- Top 6 Widgets for a Real Estate Blog
Top 6 Widgets for a Real Estate Blog
- Goal setting for bloggers: how to build a popular real estate blog
You must set goals and track your progress in order to reach your blogging potential.
- Blog Orlando - The unconference
Yesterday I attended BLOG ORLANDO at Rollins College. I found out about this wonderful event from Toby Bloomberg of Atlanta, GA and the Diva Market BLOG. I meet Toby because of the Laurie Manny Challenge….
- Almost Famous: how to create viral video
Think you have the cajones to add YouTube to your advertising arsenal? Find out if you can stomach what it takes to be a viral video vixen, with this 5 step program.
- How to embed YouTube Videos in your blog
YouTube is hot and it has tons of local videos that could punch up your blog posts.
- Drive local traffic with reviews and interviews
If there is one thing you can count on to spark a localized viral or word of mouth campaign for your real estate blog it is an interview or a review of a local business.
- Re-inventing the real estate blog with listings
Dont let your blog get bloated with tools that simply wont work to build your business. It is just as easy to embed quality, real estate tools directly into your blog as it is to install a plugin that has little to no business value.
- Out of the Box Spam Hits MyBlogLog
Just like every other social network, MyBlogLog is not immune to its fair share of spam. Why, just this morning, I had an invitation to co-author another blog from MyBlogLog
- Canonicalization: getting it right
Now that you have a basic understanding of canonicalization let
- Link Bait Idea: Crazy Laws in America
Hey, there are days when you don
- PODCAST: RETS2 and you
RETS is a behind the scenes technology your IDX or web company uses to import MLS data. RETS helps keep the data uniform as MLS information varies substantially between providers.
- The New Marketing Paradigm
I thought I would bring to the table a new marketing paradigm that might help you understand why it is all so important.
- Are you contagious? Viral Marketing 101
Get your vaccinations and slip on the body condom, we are about to tour the infectious world of viral marketing.
- Ultimate Guide to Branding a Real Estate Blog
You might be USDA Prime as a Realtor but if your brand doesn
- MYTH: single property websites drive traffic
Realtors
- HOW TO AVOID the bipolar blog
When you are writing for the web, you must stay focused and on-topic
- DON’T GET CAUGHT lying on your blog
The content you create has authority because you have credibility so be truthful in your posts.
- TRAFFIC DRIVING blog titles
No matter how good your content is, if you don
- ULTIMATE GUIDE to a real estate blog site
Here is a list of important things to know and questions to ask your developer before embarking on a real estate website
- BLOG vs website
Let’s take a look at how the traditional websitehas evolved into a blog.
- WEB MARKETING in slow times
So, it shouldn
- MYREALTYBLOG wins mashup award
Wanna learn why you need a mashup on your real estate website to drive real sustainable traffic?
- REALTORS and web marketing
Real Estate Agents are moving more of their advertising budgets into Web Marketing.
- WHAT TO LOOk for in seo
How to select a good SEO consultant
- TOP WEB tools for agents
What keeps a buyer coming back to your website?
- TRAFFIC DRIVING content
The quality of the traffic you generate is just as important as the quantity when it comes to using Google AdSense.
- DRIVING TRAFFIC with the Zillow API
So, what
- 10 TIPS FOR REALTY site stickiness
Let’s just say that you have a realty website or a blogsite and you drive tons of traffic, if your site isn’t sticky, you won’t drive sales.
- SEO
- Backlink Building Lab: Top 30 Free Backlinks for May 2008 for Real Estate Blogs
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.
- How to put your real estate blog on the First Page of Google and go from a PR 0 to a PR 5 in 2.5 months
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.
- April 29, 2008: A PageRank Update is Official
How can you tell when Google updates the PageRank toolbar? Typically, right before a PR update you will notice that Pr at various datacenters fluctuates wildly. Meaning, some center might report a 0, while others show a much higher PR.
- Why commenting for traffic and backlinks to your real estate blog is a waste of time
I must be simple, but I don’t much care if your real estate sites gets 500 visitors that are other Realtors, I care that you get 500 consumer visitors.
- Guess when the next Google PageRank update will be and win big bad backlinks
Think you know when they will update PageRank? Then, use your crystal ball and give us a hard date you think Google will next export PageRank to the toolbar and win a 1 month long professional backlink building campaign from our professional SEO staff.
- Use Trust Distance to avoid the Sandbox, Boost Rankings and Basically Spank the SERPs with your real estate blog
OK. So, on the Internet there are a seed set of sites that have Googles ultimate trust. While I cannot tell you what these sites are, you might be able to assume that sites like the New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, Yahoo, Wikipedia, etc could be among these seed set of sites.
- How to use Googles Zeitgeist to get more traffic to your mortgage blog or real estate blog
The answer is simple, Zeitgeist also provides year end data on most searched terms from the financial world. This can help you to identify what types of terms you might want to target to get more searches to your real estate blog.
- Real Estate Bloggers: start preparing for a PageRank Update
SEO Company estimates the next Google PageRank update to be around May 21, 2008
- SEO Tool of the Month: SEO Digger
seo tool, search engine optimization, seodigger
- Backlink Building Lab: Top 30 Free Backlinks of the Month for Real Estate Blogs
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.
- From the horse's mouth: what Google says about content relevancy to search terms in its leaked training manual
On March 17, 2008, an internal training manual for a specific type of Google employee was leaked on the Internet.
- What's the difference between a sitemap and a Google sitemap and how can I use them to rank better?
What it means in real life, is make sure your real estate blog has a crawlable sitemap accessible from every page of your site.
- Driving qualified traffic to your site through the search engines will increase your traffic to lead conversion ratio
You are a Realtor. So, you need to write highly focused real estate content if you want to be found through the search engines for terms related to real estate.
- Things Losers Say: SEO doesn't matter: Fact: Ranking #1 in Google can improve your real estate leads by 600%
I read it every day,
- Generate 100+ More Quality Real Estate Leads per Month by Feeding Your Blog RSS Feeds from the MLS
On the flip side of that, a Realtor that blogs daily, Greg Neuman is generating 100+ more real estate leads per month just from just his RSS feeds.
- RSS Hugger, A Blog Directory that Actually Understands SEO
RssHugger is a weblog directory that basically combines Technorati, rss directories, and search engine optimization into one.
- How to get .edu backlinks, the holy grail of backlinks
EDU backlinks are the holy grail of all backlinks. Google gives extra emphasis to these backlinks so building just a few can dramatically improve your site’s performance.
- Confessions of a Real Estate Blog Link Whore: Trackback Spam Hurts
trackbacks, spam
- Are you whoring out your real estate blog wth links?
link whore, link building, reciprocal linking, seo
- SEO Tip of the Week: Target a Typo of a Common Keyword and Increase Search Traffic by 30%
You can easily use the typos of common words to increase your search traffic by 30%.
- Nutshell SEO: DynaCats Uncovered: why using it will cause you to get tossed into Google Hell
In working on our new WordPress emulation system, I noticed a particularly sleazy method of adding extra pages to search engines and sites like Technorati
- Top 5 reasons why I hate chiclets on your real estate blog
Even the best of bloggers succumb to the occasional chicklet or two, but 10, 20 little icons in your sidebar or footer, it’s a little excessive, don’t you think?
- Is Your Real Estate Blog Keyword Spamming Behind Your Back?
Let me set the record straight, to keyword spam in content is pretty hard- it would make your text almost unreadable. What is more likely to be caught by engines is keyword spamming in the HTML.
- PageRank 5 Club Weekly Tip: Only Use 1 H1 Tag on Each Page
While debated, it is generally accepted in SEO community that most search engines analyze text inside heading tags and use it to rank Web pages.
- NUTSHELL SEO: why redirecting keyword rich domains to your vanity domain doesn't do a lick for SEO
The first SEO myth I want to dispel is the theory that redirecting a bunch of keyword rich domains to your primary site that is possibly a vanity site (i.e. yourname.com) will improve the overall SEO value of your primary site.
- The 7 Worst Pieces of SEO Advice
In the same way you wouldn’t get parenting advice from Britney Spears, you don’t want SEO advice from a self proclaimed guru that can’t rank for their own keywords or can’t pass simple SEO analysis.
- PageRank 5 Club Weekly Tip: Submit to high PageRank Directories
In the grand scheme of link building, you need to focus your time on building high quality, high PageRank backlinks.
- Week of Jan 21, 2008: SEO and Blogging Webinar Schedule
Join me for a 30 minute webinar to learn how you can achieve the kind of success clients like Laurie Manny, Ines Garcia, Marc Blasi and Brian Brady have by reaching page 1 of Google for short tail keywords in less than 4 months.
- What Pamela Anderson can teach you about calling readers to action on your blog
Talk about being called to action! Now that is exactly the response you want to generate on your real estate blog.
- PageRank 5 Club SEO Secret: register your domain for the longest amount of time possible
PageRank 5 Club is group of no more 10 bloggers, RSS Pieces selects after each PageRank Update
- 45% of all blogs sleep with the fishes within 3 months: how to keep yours alive and kicking
Blogs are like the Cosa Nostra of websites. They are connected to one another, bribe their way up the search engine results and peddle their wares to readers…