Master YOUR Domain Is YOUR ActiveRain Outside Blog's domain branding your business?
When you set up your ActiveRain Outside blog did you finish the process? Did you add a unique domain that brands your business? Do you promote your content with that domain or do you use the ActiveRain link with your id as a subdomain?
Your ActiveRain Outside Blog's Domain brands your business
Recently I tweeted a great post from a stager on ActiveRain. I used the outside blog url (the "Originally posted at" url at the bottom of the post) but her outside blog is NOT going to a unique url. I used the link at the bottom of the post that says:
"Originally posted at"
....that should go to her Domain. Instead it is going to a url that is http://_________.activerain.com/ a subdomain of ActiveRain. I am not going to say the stager is doing it wrong. Perhaps the stager wants it that way for some reason. It looks as if she has not completed the process of starting an Outside Blog that uniquely identifies and brands her business, her DOMAIN.
I'm not talking a WordPress, TypePad or Blogger blog, your ActiveRain Outside Blog...
If you have this little badge (to the left) on your avatar on comments on ActiveRain you have an Outside Blog. It is uniquely your business and ActiveRain tells search engines the version of the post on your Domain is the Original content. You post the content on ActiveRain and it magically shows up on your domain branding your business.
Or does not.
The home stager is NOT alone, a quick check of recent featured posts:
- Originally posted at http://dd757d3.activerain.com/post/2604070/how-not-to-sell-your-house
- Originally posted at http://d95d83b.activerain.com/post/2604409/what-is-normal-anyway-
- Originally posted at http://b3df1d5.activerain.com/post/2604382/are-referral-fees-a-good-idea-
- Originally posted at http://020ff7b.activerain.com/post/2601616/count-the-cost-in-2012
I have struggled with this each time I set up an ActiveRain Outside Blog. Use Contact ActiveRain (lower right corner) if you need help.
You can get a domain that brands your business for free as part of your Outside Blog or you can use a Domain you own. Using My ActiveRain Outside blog as an example: Discover Columbus Ohio (Columbus Ohio real estate), the domain is http://discovercolumbusoh.com a domain I own.
An Experiment : Master of your domain
Do this experiment, look at the URLs your content on ActiveRain shows up as.
Using one of my ActiveRain Outside blogs as an example: DiscoverColumbusOh.com (a domain I registered)
Look at YOUR content as it is generated to see if you are using a domain that brands you.
Your ActiveRain content shows up on more than one URL
My content on ActiveRain: http://activerain.com/columbusoh <----- everything I do on AR shows up here
My Columbus Ohio Outside Blog content on ActiveRain: http://columbusoh.activerain.com/ *
My Columbus Ohio Blog using it's branding, the domain.... http://discovercolumbusoh.com/
ActiveRain tells Google where the primary post is, on YOUR Domain if you complete all the steps in setting up an Outside Blog. If you do not do the final step ActiveRain tells the search engines the original is the content on the a subdomain on ActiveRain, your content shows up as an Outside Blog but ActiveRain gets the traffic. ActiveRain gets the branding (kinda, not really.)
Originally posted at: Columbus Ohio real estate : You want the Domain you choose to be associated with your business. I want DiscoverColumbusOH.com associated with the words Columbus Ohio real estate, over and over and over.
* If http://_______________.activerain.com shows up when you click on the "Originally posted at" link, you need to redo a step on your ActiveRain Outside Blog set up. Use Contact ActiveRain (lower right corner) if you need help with that step.
A real world example: Master of YOUR Domain
Click the "Originally posted at" link on ActiveRain version of your content (bottom of the post on ActiveRain)
Wrong link:
http://columbusoh.activerain.com/post/2590925/extreme-makeover-barn-edition-delaware-county-ohio-custom-home-builder
Right link:
http://discovercolumbusoh.com/post/2590925/extreme-makeover-barn-edition-delaware-county-ohio-custom-home-builder
CLICK ON THE IMAGE OF ACTIVERAIN Outside Blog's above or the link in your left sidebar to start a new ActiveRain Outside Blog. Thanks AR for allowing me to use the image above of ActiveRain Outside Blogs.
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