Sure I use my Active Rain Blog as a tool to generate real estate business, but I also use it as a diary of my progress in my never ending search for the perfect SEO Solution. I think I have figured out yet another step in our never ending journey to figure out the internet, SEO and how you go about "Getting Found". This will probably be old beans to fellow Active Rainers, but I think for newbies it is worth being put out there.
My best advice to you all is to combine a nice website (doesn't have to be expensive but should contain links to idx as well as full optimization and search engine placement) and an outside Active Rain Blog and make serious practice of including at least three backlinks in a blog post back to your website's various pages, preferable 'lead capture' pages.
As I am writing this post, I am waiting for clients to arrive who read one of my Active Rain posts. They called me to discuss various lake communities here in the Poconos and who then decided to take a short trip up the Northeast Extension of the PA Turnpike to check out two lakefront homes! One home is in Big Bass Lake and the other in Arrowhead Lakes. (Notice the 2 backlinks). Both homes are just under $500,000. Don't you think blogging is serious business now?? The power of the combination of blogging and a good website is untouchable in the real estate business. I am keeping this post as a members only post because so many other agents around here have kind of snickered at the fact that I Blog. They are not going to get any of the benefit of this post. For the rest of you, my hope is that you get some serious traffic out of it, just not here in the Pocono's.
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