Ok, I have to ask probably the most basic question

Hello and welcome to ActiveRain!  Your questions are very good.

1.  Entirely up to you. 

2.  Yes.

3.  I've seen some members who have done this.

4.  The former, if you check the page rank of AR, it has a PR of 6, so your blog will benefit from the association.  But if your website already has the same page rank, then it's a toss up.

Hope that helped.  Good luck and good blogging!

Deborah - Yolanda has answered the questions but let me elaborate a little bit. You can have another blog and its not a bad idea because your blogs can be linked to one another creating additional traffic to each site. You may want to make your other blog not just soley about real estate as an example. In regards to putting your blog on your website - I would do it. This is something that offers great content for people going to your website. You would do this by adding /rss after your blog address. The blog will come up in google if you know how to write for SEO (search engine optimization). I would suggest visiting Brad Carrol's Blog here on AR he offers excelletn info. Hope this helped.

Deborah good question you bring up. I have my AR blog link directly to my website. I also have a Wordpress blog which I post the same or just about the same information.  Hope this helps. I too still don't have all the answers.

Deborah... Great questions... exactly the same ones that have been going through this newbie's mind.  Thanks for the asking, and thanks to those who answered!

Great questions... another blog is another arm to your search engine marketing strategy!

Deb...

The more blogs you have the more blogging you can do :)

TLW...ROAR!

Another way to improve your blog ranking on the various search engines is to directly submit your information to them.  An abbreviated list of them follows:

1) myweb2.search.yahoo.com

2) blogsearch.google.com

3) www.google.com/reader

4) www.technorati.com

5) www.mozilla.com/firefox

6) www.bloglines.com

7) www.newsgator.com

8) www.pluck.com

9) www.feedster.com

and 10) pingomatic.com

Okay Matthew Rosov, how do you directly submit your blog to these sites? Does anybody else know?

 

To submit blogs to each site, go to the site and register.  The blog you will be advertising is http://activerain.com/blogs/mjrosov (though your userid will be after the blogs).

In this regard, ping o matic is great because it make sure that you have updated your blog to the various sites!

Glad you asked the question I was wondering the same thing.

Great info for a newbie like me. Thanks for asking. It brought out lots of good stuff.

Deb,

I decided to use ActiveRain for the google search engine optimization feature and also try to link it to my website.  Not all the time but some of the time.  If I have a really long article, I will start it on ActiveRain and then do the "to Read more" and link it into the website.  I have two websites... one is a blog website with most of the ActiveRain content on it @ www.seegrhomes.com and the other is a forum that I created for the public that I'm trying to push at the moment :)))... it is www.stoneblogs.com.  Go check them out and feel free to give me any feedback you might have.  Good luck, I think a blogging website is the way to go!

Hi and welcome to AR!  I appreciated your questions so much because it opened a Pandora's Box of response info from all the great AR members out there who are so experienced with all of this!  thanks so much for your questions and I will look forward to your future posts! 

Sarah Miller-Legg, Phoenix & Pinal County, AZ Real Estate :)

Thanks for asking your questions Deborah! There is some great info in the comments! Thanks everyone!

One of the things I did in a rare moment of intelligence is join blooger.com on Google. That wasn't the smart part. I realized that I could cut my Active rain Blog and paste it on Blooger . So I saved the time in re-writing. Now that may seem obvious to you but for me it was one small step.... On this digital highway

Charlie

great post. i learned a lot.  thanks for asking!

Hi Deborah  --  Welcome to ActiveRain (AR).  Look like you have your answers already.  I am a REALTOR  in Central Texas.   I look forward to networking with you.  Have a great day!!!

It's been a while since you first joined the active|rain community. I look forward to networking with you in the near future. Best of luck and see you around.