I'm not a Blogging star, I may never get a 100,000 points. I've never had a featured post. I'm not high tech, none of this comes naturally to me. I'm not a frustrated author, I don't really like to write all that much. So why do I plug away here on Active Rain? Just one word, RESULTS.
Way before I was a Realtor, I had a woodworking business. I lived in the back woods of western Maine and made wooden salad bowls. I had to travel long distances to sell them or give up 50% of my money to a gallery. Then in the dark ages of the Internet, circa 1998 or so I saw a fellow woodworker with a web site. I thought wow, I should get one too. I recently discoved that my old web site is still archived on-line. Well I was on page one of every search engine until I had to quit in 1994 and moved to Ocala Florida. I was on-line before Google. Now that was a some what obscure little niche but I had it mostly to myself and got around 15,000 hits a year. I was spoiled.
Last fall I decided to build a semi custom web site, OcalaHouseHunter.com, by the same person who built my woodworking site. This time there were thousands of people already here before me. I tried to get my site noticed. I looked for other Realtors in hopes of getting links. I never did get more than a dozen and I don't think most of them link back.
Then in January of this year I stumbled upon Active Rain. I started blogging and linking back to my web site. When Localism came along I did my best to post images of my town, Ocala and write some Localism blogs.
Now, a short eight months later, my web site can be found. I've risen to the bottom of page 3 on Google under the search, Ocala real estate and I'm climbing. I am now number one for my city of Ocala Florida and my profile seems to come up every where, under all sorts of searches. I get click troughs from localism to my web site almost every day.
- The point here is that real estate blogging is worth the time.
- There is no better way to get noticed on-line than Active Rain.
- There is no better way to improve your web site ranking than linking from Active Rain.
- Blogging does bring business, it's not a hobby.
- To date I've got 4 listings from people who have found me on-line.
- You don't have to be a techy type.
- You don't even have to have much writing talent.
- You just have to keep working at your blog and results will come.
I write this so other people like myself, the average Joe on Active Rain, can see that plugging away will yield results. You can get yourself found on the web by doing little else than blogging on Active Rain.
There is no lower cost of sales than a web site or blog that can be found by a search.
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