Yes, it does appear that The Donald made a social call on my Michigan real estate blog yesterday during the Yankee Blog Swap. (A big thanks to Mary McKnight and RSSPieces for a great idea well executed!) Though I have my doubts that it actually was the real Donald Trump, I had to capture that screen shot for posterity. If you haven't heard of MyBlogLog, check it out. It's a lot of fun to see who is visiting your site. While having The Donald visit was a hoot, it got me thinking about other things.
There are many rewards to blogging. I value the camaraderie, the sharing of ideas and the opportunity to learn from my fellow Rainers. Points are nice but one of my goals in blogging has been to attract new business. My other blog and my website have been around for a while. Last year I got enough business from them to make it more than worth my investment of time and money.
Many of us with outside blogs and sites have tracking programs that allow us to see what is being read and how often. I, for example, know that people looking for millage rates for Oakland County Michigan end up on my blog fairly often. Why? Because every year I do a new post about the millage rates. People like to know about taxes, I guess. I can see the phrases that they have Googled, so I know why they ended up on my site.
On ActiveRain we can't see the queries that brought consumers to us, but perhaps we have gotten calls or comments from them about our blogs.
So, since AR just launched Localism.com, I thought it would be helpful if we could share what we have found that is working for us. If you have outside blog or site and you would be willing to share examples of top search phrases that would be great. I think this could help steer the rest of us into creating better and stickier consumer content. If you have an AR blog, what posts have created a response from consumers? Specific examples appreciated.
I am hoping we can all help each other create great consumer content.
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