Real Estate Blog Lab

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.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve just written about SEO deprogramming; because of the urge to focus most of your time and effort into SEO for your blog. SEO might get people to come to your site, but SEO won’t get them [...]

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More than an experiment a passion.
The premise for the experiment

Setup a new domain name.
Use Wordpress as the basis
Posts & Pages
See how the search engines respond

The process that brought about this new venture is outlines in the posts I’ve written recently in this order:

Real Estate Weblogging 101
A Tucson Realtors Journey in Web Presence
Building a Real Estate [...]

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Have you ever said, “I wish I had known what I know now when I started all of this”  I’ve said it over and over during the last year.  I’ve continued to make improvements to all the sites we have but there has been this nagging desire to put it all together and see if it [...]

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Real Estate blogging is the hot topic of the hour.  It will continue to pop up at the top of the charts for the rest of 2007 and into 2008.  Let’s face it Real Estate is tough especially now.  Real Estate Agents everywhere are looking for ways to better market themselves and their services. 
In years [...]

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Things have been very busy here at the lab over the last month.  I know the number of posts don’t reflect that, unfortunately some experiments and setting them up takes time to perk and have some results worth sharing.  There are a number of those brewing as I write.
The latest is one of the most exciting [...]

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“Remember that every agent’s livelihood and ultimate goal is to have as many signs in the ground and as much advertising as possible. The signs and advertising bring more listing leads and buyer leads, which puts more money in the agent’s pocket.”   Taken from Real/diablog - tomorrows real estate trends the post titled:  ”Agents “Buying [...]

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There are two types of categories

Categories for organizing your posts
Categories for organizing your blogroll (links)

Wordpress 2.1 changed the way it handles categories behind the scenes and now allows you to create them on the fly. For our purposes they haven’t changed a great deal. For SEO purposes here are my suggestions for Category [...]

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Domain, sub-domain, folder, that is the question whether it is better to suffer the slings and arrows . . .
One of the first things you will want to decide is how to handle your domain name for the property site.  Your decision might have to be based on your particular hosting options.  If you are [...]

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When I first set up the lab one of the first experiments was to see the effect of having more than one URL pointing to the same place.
I know for someone just beginning to figure out their web site/blog they might not know the difference.
In the beginning all we care about is if people can [...]

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