When I joined Active Rain over a year ago I was a little bit overwhelmed by the amount of information available here. One of the biggest things that I didn't understand was how it all worked. Blogging, keywords, meta tags, it was all french to me.
For many newbies finding a way to make a difference on Active Rain can be hard. Depending on the area that you live in you may need to post and be active for a very long time before you will be recognized in your city.
I have been working with a lot of agents in my office on blogging. One of the strategies I have been suggesting to them is to adopt a less competetive city. By choosing a less competive city they can gain some instant Google recognition. Take for instance, Overland Park Kansas. There are 144 profiles set up and it work take over 60,000 points to be the featured agent but if you were to choose Leawood Kansas there is only 24 profiles and it would only take 7700 points to be the featured agent. Some of you can attain that many points in a weekend.
One of the agents I am working with has only written 1 blog post and has only 750 points but his profile comes up on Google page 1 for Leawood Homes. If his profile was posted in Overland Park it would probably be on page 20. Now mind you Leawood is a much smaller city than Overland Park but the average home sale price is over $488,000.
Active Rain is an enormous community and it has brought me a lot of business, it has helped build my website and has introduced me to a lot of great people. I hope that it will be you the same success. So, if you are looking to find some early success maybe choosing a less competetive city might be your answer.
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