What's This?
January 2, 2009
A link came into my Google alerts on my real estate market. This morning I clicked on one of those links, I didn’t find what I thought I would on a business blog. What would you think if you saw the images to the right on a business blog?
What's This?
Yep, I did a double take myself. Literally I looked twice, from top to bottom, (not that bottom). I refreshed the page to see if the images changed, they did not.
Innocent enough, the blogger put a Flickr photo widget in the sidebar of the blog. I don’t know the reasons for the widget. I see a lot of blogs with Flickr widgets in the sidebar. My Netvibes feed reader has a Flickr widget. The images are usually, colorful (and G rated).
Yesterday I posted the first Nugget of 2009 on using Google Alerts to keep track of the competition. That is exactly what I was doing when I clicked the link on an alert and found the Flickr widget.
I clicked one of the links to see where it lead on Flickr, it was a photo stream as specific as the image in the widget. (I did not click the “More Photos” link at the bottom of the widget)
DON’T SEND A NEGATIVE message to potential buyers and sellers through images on your blog.
Remember: “A picture is worth a 1000 words” It could cost you a lot more in dollars and lost business.
Filed under Real Estate Blogging