A while back I wrote A Fable Do Follow and Comments when I installed the Do Follow Plug-in. I’ve noticed more and more comments which have nothing to do with the post. They found the blog lab on a do follow blog list and all they want is a link.
Entries Tagged as 'Real Estate Blogging'
Do Follow and Lucia’s Link Love
July 2nd, 2008 · 36 Comments
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
Firefox Spell Check Auto Save Publish
June 24th, 2008 · 10 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I completed this routine and when I looked at the live post there were my bold red and green words that had come up on the spell check in Firefox.
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
John Lockwood REALTOR®(thingy goes here) Plugin
June 18th, 2008 · 11 Comments
I have on rare occasions used the word Realtor® in a blog post. Simply because I know it is supposed to have a trademark symbol after it and I don’t know where that symbol is nor do I can to learn. Instead I use real estate agent, which I know being a real estate agent and a Realtor® is not the same thing. But it made it so I didn’t have to find the trademark symbol.
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
Disqus your Comments
May 30th, 2008 · 16 Comments
I went to the Disqus website and created an account and set up two blogs and installed the Wordpress plugin here at the lab. Then I got to thinking before I clicked remove all comments, just what does that mean remove all comments? Therefore I made a strategic decision, this Lab experiment would be done on one of my lab rats and not on the lab itself.
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
Rotating Header Images
May 28th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Keeping things fresh, adding new content and providing a little eye candy in the process makes coming to your blog an interesting experience.
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
A Pro Flickr Account is a Good Idea to Enhance Your Blog Posts
May 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Many of you are already have a Flickr account. Did you know you can use your Flickr account to enhance your blog or website?
With a Pro account for $25 a year you can have unlimited uploads and unlimited sets of images. It is easy to upload and manage images and once they are uploaded you can easily organize those images into sets.
There is a slide show option for showing images in a set. When you click that option the set opens a new window with large images for viewing. It displays a URL to the slide show. (I would recommend you upload images at least 1024 X 768) The free account will size them down to this if they are large.
Large Images for your Blog Post
This is a really cool feature for blog posts.
- Take photos of local attraction (building, park, event, listing, issue, etc.)
- Upload the photos to flickr]
- Create a set for those images
- Write your blog post
- Include an image and a link to the slide show of the set
This provides you a way to get really large images on a blog post without sacrificing bandwidth or load time from your own hosting.
It makes your posts more interesting by providing detailed images of the topic.
Here is a quick example of how this works
Cactus in Bloom
All over the Sonoran desert cactus of different size color and varieties are in bloom this spring. They bring a special kind of color to the desert. This image is a pair of buckhorn cholla taken late in the evening. To see more images of cactus in bloom click the flower or the link to: Sonoran Cactus in Bloom.
If you want to try this out you can get a free flickr account. The free account only allows 3 sets to be created, but that’s enough to get you started and test it out.
Bonus Gem: Create your flickr account name something like TucsonAZRealEstate. It appears in the URL for your images.
The only downside to this: Your images aren’t indexed by Google linked to your site. If this is something you don’t want to give up and bandwidth and load times are not an issue there is a way to do it and still not slow down the load time for the blog or post.
You don’t need a flickr account and all the images in the group will be indexed.
I’ll show you how to accomplish this in another post.
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
WordPress 2.5 More Observations
April 25th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Manage still exists but Options is gone. The Options have been scattered about various places on the Dashboard. Settings, Plugins, Users are now top right. They aren’t on a tab just sitting there to themselves.
Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging
Trolling for Links vs Being a Backlink Troll
April 22nd, 2008 · 15 Comments
There are plenty of spammers and short cut artist in the net taking a good tool and using it for less than honorable purposes. So why not take a Trolls tool and use it for a good purpose.
Marc Rasmussen made a good point about wanting to put his efforts into commenting where it will do the most good for both the blogger and the commenter.
“I’m one of those guys….kinda. I found your blog through a dofollow search in the new Google beta search. I didn’t really know this existed but a friend of mine showed me.
So now I am writing a comment for a little link juice but I did read your post as well as a few others. Great blog.”
If you are going to read and comment why not do it where there is juice coming to you for providing content to the discussion.
Now before we go too far down this road you should realize that even with a do follow on a blog it doesn’t mean there will be any juice.
- First, the post if new has no juice to give.
- Second, if this post is not indexed there is no juice to give.
- Third, even if it is indexed if it has no PR there is no juice to give.
Therefore, even if you do find a blog with do follow it doesn’t mean you will be getting any juice. At best it is like having an orange (the blog) and you might get a single drop of juice (your comment on an indexed post) at some point in the future. If the post falls out of the index the single drop of juice dries up with it.
Now, once you realize how much work can go into searching for do follow blogs and posts to read and comment on knowing there might be a little juice coming to you in the future but not knowing for how long. Is this really the best place to be putting your SEO efforts?
If you still think it is then why not go ahead and use a tool like Comment Kahuna. I won’t recommend it because:
- This is software they give “free” that I have to install on my computer. What are they trolling from me that I’m providing them for free?
- Anyone that thinks it is white hat to use a tool to leave comments just for backlinks are not people I want to provide access to my computer system.
I”m not familiar with the Google Beta Search Marc mentions in his comment. It might be something to check out for me, I would rather spend my efforts in writing more quality content which will bring readers an in turn indexing which puts a lot more juice in my Orange than a single potential drop of juice coming from a comment on a blog I have no control over. Hum, just a thought!
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
A Tool to Help Pick Keyword Targets
April 10th, 2008 · 23 Comments
Don’t know where to go to find keywords or specifically what keywords to target? Like Zillow
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
Don’t Be A Real Estate Blog John
April 4th, 2008 · 21 Comments
Please, please, please, if you have a blog be a blogger, but don’t have a blog and pay someone to blog for you. It will hurt you more than anything else because in the end you will appear to be a phony.
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
