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Syndicate Your ActiveRain Blogs

By Brad Andersohn

Education & Training with Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp Non-Licensed

September 28, 2009 02:41 AM

Syndicate Your ActiveRain Blogs with RSS

What is syndication and why should you "Syndicate Your ActiveRain Blogs?" Driving traffic and exposure to your Blog is the primary reason. RSS - Really Simple Syndication is a great way to connect your ActiveRain Blog to other Blogs and websites. Members on ActiveRain have an RSS feed button located on the sidebar of their Blog. Click on it to see your options and how it can be used to expand your reach to a larger audience via other sites and locations on the web.

Adding an RSS feed to your ActiveRain Blog on your ActiveRain Blog is nice, but no where near the value and benefit of having an RSS feed in other locations. Do you have a website? Do you use an email signature? Are you utilizing online marketing? Take advantage of this tiny little tool so you can get BIG results. That's why it's here. If you're not familiar with RSS Feeds, Readers, and tools etc., here's a really good post that will give you more details and an explanation.

RSS is a great way to syndicate your Blog posts and get them out there and in front of a larger potential audience. Using RSS feeds is also a great way to have information and great content delivered back to you without having to go out and look for it. This will save you valuable time browsing the web for content and information that you might be interested in.

Personally, I use Google Reader for all my RSS feeds to the sites I like to get updates and new information from. This allows me the ability to scroll through hundreds of articles from various sites and blogs easily and conveniently without having to go to each site and see what's newly published. You can also share certain posts and articles with others that you follow, and they can share with you.

If you're looking for some ways to get back-links and Web Traffic, I just watched THIS VIDEO that explains how to do this using FeedAgg.com. You can see how many other RE professionals have done this already by Clicking Here. You can search their site for various Real Estate type RSS feeds that have already been added to the site. Why not add yours while you're there. It's just one more way to syndicate your ActiveRain Blog.

Teaching your clients how to subscribe to your Blog via RSS is a valuable tool, both for them, and for you.

DON'T FORGET TO DO THIS WITH THE RSS FROM YOUR ACTIVERAIN OUTSIDE BLOGS TOO.

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Edward & Celia Maddox

The Celtic Connection Realty - Queen Creek, AZ

EXPERIENCE & INTEGRITY - WE TAKE THE HIGH ROAD

Thanks for the information. Active Rain is great for getting exposure for your business.

Sep 28, 2009 02:59 AM

Harry F. D'Elia III

WEDO Real Estate and Beyond, LLC - Phoenix, AZ

Investor , Mentor, GRI, Radio, CIPS, REOs, ABR

I have bookmarked this for future reference. Thanks for shairng this information.

Sep 28, 2009 05:06 AM

John Slocum

Premiere Property Group, LLC - Vancouver Washington - Vancouver, WA

Broker, SFR - Vancouver WA Real Estate

Hello Brad, I tried this last year with my AR blog and it seems some "bad code" (probably from MS FrontPage) is in my blog, disabling the ability of the RSS to work. I then gave up.

How does one go about identifying and purging this bad code in their AR blog effectively to allow the RSS to work?

Thank you! John

Sep 28, 2009 05:12 AM

Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist

KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA

Probate Real Estate Services

Brad: This is great info ... I too am on info overload ... there is so much to do ... and finding a balance between selling activities and blogging and keeping up on social media ... yikes!

Sep 28, 2009 05:14 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

John - the best way is to remove any bad code copied from any third party applications to your Blog posts, this will ensure that your RSS feeds will be clean of any misc. code they're currently showing. The problem with copy and pasting from some of these outside sources is that they do add some hidden HTML that often time may be incompatible with the AR network. I know that some folks using the copy and paste feature from MS Word have some of these same issues.

I always create my posts in AR using the AR editing tools and then save them in draft mode until ready to publish. On occasion, I will use scribefire.com in conjunction with the Firefox browser to add color and different sizes to the fonts as opposed to copy and pasting from third party sources. Hope that helps. :-)

Sep 28, 2009 05:24 AM

John Slocum

Premiere Property Group, LLC - Vancouver Washington - Vancouver, WA

Broker, SFR - Vancouver WA Real Estate

Hello Brad, unfortunately for me I don't know what the bad code looks like or, how to ID the older posts where it resides. I tried a techie program call TidyATL but that was very cumbersome. Any insights on a better "cleaner app" would be a thing of beauty. Thanks! John

Sep 28, 2009 06:16 AM

Anna "Banana" Kruchten

HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ

602-380-4886

Thanks Brad for some reason this seems to have been a bit of an issue for us. Hopefully my husband can figure it out for me - it's so nice to have a man around the RSS feed!! Ok - I could figure it out but he loves these kind of things!

Sep 28, 2009 12:07 PM

Steve, Joel & Steve A. Chain

Chain Real Estate Investments & Mortgage, Steve & Joel Chain - Cottonwood, CA

Brad, Thanks again, I appreciate not just your how-tos but the creative suggestions as well.

Sep 28, 2009 12:46 PM

Joan Whitebook

BHG The Masiello Group - Nashua, NH

Consumer Focused Real Estate Services

This is so helpful.. thanks and I need to do this. I have bookmarked this post so I can do this when I come up for air.

Sep 28, 2009 02:29 PM

Lisa Ludlow Archer

Live Love Homes-Keller Williams, Charlotte, NC Ballantyne Area - Waxhaw, NC

great info thanks for sharing. We have been talking about just this and need to go through all of this.

Sep 28, 2009 04:13 PM

Joshua Schaubach

ERA Matt Fischer Realtor - Yuma, AZ

e-Pro Your Yuma, AZ - Realtor Only a Call or Click Away!

i have always wondered about the RSS feeds and just needed more info to realize their importance. thanks!

Sep 29, 2009 05:01 AM

Joshua Schaubach

ERA Matt Fischer Realtor - Yuma, AZ

e-Pro Your Yuma, AZ - Realtor Only a Call or Click Away!

i have always wondered about the RSS feeds and just needed more info to realize their importance. thanks!

Sep 29, 2009 05:02 AM

John Slocum

Premiere Property Group, LLC - Vancouver Washington - Vancouver, WA

Broker, SFR - Vancouver WA Real Estate

Hello Brad, looks like I have a lot of posts to clean up. To make the most of my efforts (with respect to better SEO juice) please let me know what I should change to this protocol:

1) Use better key words and phrases in the re-write
2) better anchor text for my links
3) put these posts in an Active Rain Channel for 25 pts. each
4) smile because Brad says doing this is a good thing :)

How many of these a day should I limit myself to, as I've heard Google may not like too much tinkering all at once?

Thanks! John

Sep 29, 2009 06:49 AM

Troy Erickson AZ Realtor (602) 295-6807

HomeSmart - Chandler, AZ

Your Chandler, Ahwatukee, and East Valley Realtor

Brad - Now that I have a few posts under my belt, and am getting more consistent, I really do need RSS to syndicate my blog.

Sep 29, 2009 10:21 AM

Sharon Senger

tcDocs - Seattle, WA

Licensed Transaction Coordinator

Brad,

Thank you again for another great post which I am adding to my Bookmarked Library.

Sharon

Sep 29, 2009 03:45 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

@John - all the above! :-) The channels are for more than just 25 points, and topics are very important too. They show up as categories on your outside Blog. As far as how many a day? Whatever you have time for my friend, you don't need Googles permission. :-)

Sep 29, 2009 04:38 PM

Michael O'Donnell

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Arizona Properties - Scottsdale, AZ

GRI, ePRO, Accessible Homes

Wow, glad I found your blogs. The "techy" agent in my office never told me all this great stuff. Is it because we sell in the same market?

Hmmm. Oh well, now I can do all those wonderful links I've heard about but nobody could explain to me.

Thanks!

Oct 24, 2009 04:54 AM

Michael O'Donnell

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Arizona Properties - Scottsdale, AZ

GRI, ePRO, Accessible Homes

Wow, glad I found your blogs. The "techy" agent in my office never told me all this great stuff. Is it because we sell in the same market?

Hmmm. Oh well, now I can do all those wonderful links I've heard about but nobody could explain to me.

Thanks!

Oct 24, 2009 04:54 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Michael - you'll find a ton of helpful posts and members here on AR, it's the largest library of content and members in our Industry. Enjoy my friend and best of luck to you and your business. :-)

Oct 24, 2009 05:00 AM

Haris Dedic

Villager Realty 847-878-2588 - Glenview, IL

Glenview Real Estate - Chicago North Shore

Hi Brad ~ I have to come back soon to start syndicating my AR blog. Today my mission is the Scavenger Hunt :)

Oct 29, 2009 05:05 PM