Social Media Mistake #2: Re-blog, Re-blog, Re-blog
After realizing my social media mistake #1, I started blogging. My first few posts were terrible. Although, I did my best, right from the beginning, to post photographs and provide valuable local information, it just wasn't working.
They were hyper-local and they were boring. Even, I was bored. I just couldn't find my blogging voice. As a result, I started re-blogging and re-blogging and re-blogging.
There was no way I was ranking in the search engines. My entire ActiveRain blog looked like a compilation of other people's posts.
You would see an occasional market report and the rest were re-blogs. I was posting but I still didn't get the whole blogging thing. What a waste.
Then it happened. In May 2010, I saw something in the MLS that got my blood boiling. It was in reference to a conversation I had with a seller two years earlier. I was so upset that I sat down to right the post, Unscrupulous Listing Practice?. After nine months of blogging, and blogging poorly at that, I got my first featured post. That post received 199 comments and to date has 8,100 clicks.
I was finally bitten by the blogging bug. I wish I could say all my writing dramatically improved. It didn't but, at least, the re-blogging stopped. To this day, I'm not a big fan of re-blogging.
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