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Do You Know Who Is Reading Your Active Rain Blog? And What Did They Want to Find???

Who is reading your Active Rain blog?

What are they typing into that search bar?

I read a lot of posts here on the rain where the member is complaining that he/she is not getting comments but lots of views which they see in their stats here on the rain.

There are many more people reading your blog if it has good content than you might think. The consumers reading your posts are highly unlikely to log in and comment on your post. That is why there are many more views than comments on your posts.

I am surprised at how many members using the mybloglog widget on the side bar of their Active Rain blog but are not fully using it's capabilities. That is the widget that shows the photos of all the members of mybloglog that are visiting your blog like the one you see below.

mybloglog tool for blogging

I do not do any of the community things on mybloglog. I am there for one thing and that is too see what people are searching for and how they are coming to find my blog. For only $25 a year I get such a great tool. You should too. Of course if you are way more advanced and are using Google Analytics you will not need mybloglog. I like the ease and the simpleness of mybloglog and for $25 a year I think it is money well spent.

blogging for business on active rain

When you go into mybloglog click on VIEW SITE STATS. You will get a screen that has 3 columns and date tabs at the top. You can view each day of the past week. I go to view about every other day. This is where I get many great ideas for new posts to write. The first screen you see above tells me what they people actually typed in to their search bars on Google, Yahoo and MSN to find me.

This screen shot is from the other day. I have been writing about short sales and getting listings from our Active Rain blog for sellers who need to do short sales. The words you see there are the actual keywords. This tells me that just on that day 2 people wanted info on this subject. This means that I should write more posts about short sales in Palm Beach county Florida. The more that I write about this subject the more content there is for the reader to come back to.

The other interesting thing is the amount of agents using the keywords with 'expired listing' in it. That is good news for me since that is one of the subjects that I coach agents on and I do customized expired listing packages for agents. This shows me there is a demand for my niche.

If you click on one of these searches you will come up with the actual search engine screen which shows you who all your competition is for that search. A lot of times I see that I am #6 or below and yet the searcher clicked on my link and not the others above me. This again goes to relevant content. In this situation for the search on 'short sales in palm beach county' our blog has the #1 and #2 spot on page one of Google. In case you missed about how to blog with longtail keywords click here to learn more.

blogging for business on active rain

It looks like this post is getting long and I will need to divide this post so stay tuned for the rest of the story....

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Posted by Nestor & Katerina Gasset Realtors® Wellington Florida Luxury Homes on 02/02/2008 11:56 PM

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Originally posted at: South Florida Real Estate and...: Do You Know Who Is Reading Your Active Rain Blog? And What Did They Want to Find???

51 Comments on Do You Know Who Is Reading Your Active Rain Blog? And What Did They Want to Find???

FEB

2008

Thanks for all the detail - Appreciate it, Nestor, Katerina!

Is it difficult to add MyBlogLog to my AR Blog - please let me know.

Have a good night!

DEAN & DEAN'S TEAM CHICAGO

Dean Moss - Dean's Team Chicago

Dean- It is easy. Just click on my widget on the right side bar and it will take you to the widget sight and follow the directions from there. Thanks for commenting on my blog. I appreciate it. Katerina

Hi Katerina...Another Great How To use the tools available to us here on AR

THANKS, have a great day in the Sun:O)

Well, now that you can see I've been here, I can't very well not comment! :>) I'd love to figure out how to put Google analytics on my blog, but haven't had luck. Perhaps it'd be worth the simple $25 fee to have those stats... Thanks for another great techno post! I just eat these up!

I have bookmarked this to come back and read it again, it is loaded with good information. I have been noticing quite a few people on AR have the recent readers listed (mybloglog) but have no idea how they do that!

Thank you for the great info you post on ActiveRain! This is another tool that I will look further into.

Fred Carver,Victoria BC Realtor

Fred- The weather here has been wonderful, sun is shining, wind is blowing, birds are singing. What blessing we have to enjoy!

As always, I am learning something new from you every time I read your posts. Thanks

Natalie Langford, QSC, Frederick County Realtor

Natalie- I gotcha! Just kidding. I do not use google analytics on my blog. I pay the $25 for ease and simplicity. It is there at my fingertips and so easy to read and use. Click on the reader widget and it will take you to get your own and then follow the instructions to get the upgrade for the info. Katerina

Patricia Beck

Patricia- Just click on it and follow the directions to get one of your own. Maybe I will do a tutorial on it after I finish up this series on using mybloglog.

Joseph Ellman

Joseph, I try to do 2 tutorials per week so come back often. Also, I just did some on linking within your AR posts and on blogging with longtail keywords. You can look them up in my tags. Thanks for your comment too! Katerina

Jon Zolsky, your Daytona Beach connection

Jon- HI! I have not seen you around on my blog for a while. Hope you are having a great new year.

Katerina, You are a wealth of knowledge---I have more of your posts bookmarked then I can count! I will really have to look into this soon, it sounds as if I can do it! Thank you for always sharing.

Katerina, Thank you again for passing this info on to everyone on AR. I use google analytics.

KATERINA - I didn't realize that it was so inexpensive to get an enhanced version of MyBlogLog. I'm going to look into this. Thanks for the tip.

Katerian - I did the same type of post months ago about mybloglog. Of course you have done a much better job of explaining it than I did back then :) The tracking feature of mybloglog is outstanding. It is one of the things I check everyday as part of my routine.

Thanks for the info! I've looked at other sources to see where people have found one of my sites. I find it very interesting too. Especially when I am on page 2 or 3. Some people actually go past the first page of search results.

Katerina, Another good job. I appreciate your posts.

Great information. It helps to know what people are reading

Katerina, I have mybloglog and just last week signed up for the paid subscription. Now I wonder why I waited so long. What a fantastic tool, to see how people found you and what search terms they were looking for. Thanks for sharing, more people should sign up so they know what people are searching for in their area's.

Carole Provenzale Owner, Feng Shui Long Island

Carole- You Can do it!

Matthew J Blum - MyFavoriteMortgage.net

Matthew- Thanks for your support here. I remember you told me you use google analytics. This is something simple for those that do not want to get too techy. I use analytics for other sites we have but I like fast and simple for AR blog.

Adam Waldman - Long Island Real Estate

Adam- I love using mybloglog for our AR blog. It is easy and the best $25 you can spend!

Bill Gassett Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate

Bill- I am sorry I did not see your post on mybloglog. I like the tracking too but I really like examining the searches to see what people are searching for and how they find me. Cool stuff!

Kathy Anderson - Sun City Grand Real Estate

Kathy- It amazes me how many times people go to the second page to find what they are looking for. I like to see how I compare to the other writers and websites. Sometimes the other sites are junky and spammy. Thanks!

Bradenton Florida Real Estate - Dan Forbes REALTOR®

Dan- And you helped me to learn how to put a widget on my blog in the first place! Thanks!

Nashville Real Estate - Larry Brewer

Larry- Thank you for commenting and reading my blog. If you know what they are reading you can write more of what they want to read about. That is what I use it for. To give more value. Katerina

FEB

2008

Yes, this is a wonderful thing, if you wish to home in on your target market. Information is power, that's the key. This is a great tool to have knowledge of who is reading, where they are coming from and what they are looking for. Lance

Nestor and Katerina

Tons of great info here; I am having to have to come back to it.

Sincerely

Tom Braatz

Katerina, MyBlogLog is one of the easiest and most intuitive statistics programs out there for our blogs. I've been using it since the beginning and $25/year is a no-brainer. I check the log each and every day.

Lance Winslow

Lance- Thank you for your comment. I appreciate you reading my post. I love this little $25 tool!

Brian Block -- Northern Virginia & D.C. Real Estate

I am glad that you use it for all it is worth. I agree, $25 tool, what's there to think about!

Thanks for this information. I use the Goggle analysis system and really love it. I learned about it from Active Rain as well.

Katerina, Love mybloglog. What a great tool and like that it shows you if they clicked on through. Can't beat it for $25 for the year.

Charlottesville, Monticello Real Estate> >Karen Gentry, REALTOR/ Virginia

Karen- That is great. That means you are much more sophisticated than most1

Marc Grossman, GRI - Central Florida Real Estate Specialist

Marc- thank for your comment. I love it too, so easy to use, so easy to understand! Best 25 bucks I have spent all year!

FEB

2008

I recently discover MyBlogLog and I have to say I love it. It really is starting to change how I write my blogs. I'm noticing a lot more people looking locally at my blog than I originally thought. I was surprised more people finding me on MSN search than Google.

Todd Clark (Realtor), GRI (Washington Co, Beaverton, Oregon)

Todd- I found it amazing to see that people were finding me through Yahoo and MSN. That data is great because we pay so much attention to Google, but there are other SEs to be aware of. I like how it is all in one place with two clicks and you are there. Thanks for commenting.

FEB

2008

Katerina-

I've got to add the BlogLog widget to my AR blog... I'm bookmarking this to finish reading later - got to run!

~Emily

Katerina, I clicked over to your second post first; so now will need to go read it. This sounds like $25 well spent. I guess I need to check out where to purchase it on my blog log.

FEB

2008

Thank you SO much for this WONDERFUL information! I am off to read some more on your second blog!

FEB

2008

I don't know if I'm just missing something or what but I use wordpress and haven't been able to figure out how to add the tracking code. I also didn't figure out how to add the tracking code here. Am I the only one missing this.

Thanks,

Bonnie

TheHomeInspectorsWife

Another Great How To use the tool!

I will check it out.

FEB

2008

David Lelak - IHI Home Inspections

Bonnie- I will do a tutorial on it this week. Take the code and add it to your blog settings, description section. Or just wait til I get the post up on Tuesday. Thanks for your comment! Katerina

Robert Walton

Robert- Thanks! It is a great tool to use for tracking if you are looking for something easy! Katerina

Marchel Peterson Spring TX Real Estate E-Pro ABR

Marchel- I don't remember where you pay for the upgrade on the site. Thanks for reading and have fun using the info. It really is great to know what people are searching for so you can write posts about those subjects. Katerina

Emily Johnston

Emily- Thanks for stopping by!

Tom Braatz

Tom- You did not log in first before you made your comment. Thanks for reading my blog, and come back soon. Katerina

Sherri Sherpy

Sherri- Great, I am glad you are getting something from my posts. Have fun with the tracking part of mybloglog. Great tool!

SEP

2008

Katerina,

Thank you ... I'm going to add this today!

SEP

2008

Great information, I've got to go and read Part 2 now. I've recently gotten two listings from blogging too!! But I'm alittle inconsistant when I get on. I find I comment more than I blog. Do the comments get found too??

Jeannette

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