My purpose here is to provide real estate agents with a beginner’s guide to the components of a blog. Knowing how blogs are put together helps in understanding how they can be used as part of a social media marketing campaign. Blogs, at least as we know them today, are produced using some pretty sophisticated [...]
If you’re new to real estate blogging there’s a bewildering array of software from which to choose. Rather than reviewing all of the choices I’m going to look at the main pros and cons for hosted WordPress and Blogger blogs. As this post is designed to help the newby blogger I’m going to ignore self [...]
A friend – a fellow real estate agent – wants to get a start as a blogger. I sense her bewilderment. Where to start? What to write about? The trick here is to narrow the focus and to find a niche. Anyone can babble on about themselves and their latest listings. But that’s not the [...]
Starting Your First Blog? 29 Tips, Tutorials and Resources for New Bloggers via Starting Your First Blog? 29 Tips, Tutorials and Resources for New Bloggers. Related Posts:Why a high bounce rate is a bad thing and 5 ways to fix it How commenting will make you a better bloggerHow to write a search engine optimised [...]
In a tough market an agent’s website becomes an essential business tool. It provides sales leads, helps sell property, and builds an agent’s profile. So it’s important to maximise the chances of being found. Here are a few ways to increase those chances. Start a blog and link back to your site. Do this regularly. [...]
Here’s 10 reasons why I believe blogging can help grow your listings and sales. And make you popular and really cool. Blogs are search engine friendly. If you’re blogging about real estate in your area your blog posts will contain lots of keywords. Keywords, such as the words ‘real estate’ and the name of your [...]
