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10 Steps to Instant Web Content - Import Your Active Rain Blog Into Your Website

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Christine Wade

I don't know if this topic has been covered or not yet, but I just set it up over the last day or so, and I was so excited that it actually worked that I had to share!

Follow the steps below to set it up for yourself with your own blog.

  1. Real Estate Virtual Assistant Blog ScreenshotKnow your Active Rain blog URL...for example, mine is:  http://activerain.com/blogs/the10hourva
  2. Go to Feedburner.com and sign up for an account. 

  3. Create a new feed...this is where you paste in your Active Rain blog URL from #1.  Click Next
  4. A little screen pops up with the Feed Title and the new feed URL - you can change the title and the ending on the Feed URL if you like.  Once done, click on Activate Feed.
  5. Another little screen pops up and gives you you a link for you to give to people to subscribe to your blog feed...keep that handy as it's good to use in email signatures, use with button graphics to make a "subscribe now" button, etc...  Click Next.  Oh, and FYI, my link is:  http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2668598&loc=en_US
  6. On this screen, clicking anything is optional...read through and decide for yourself, then click Next.  (I just checked the Clickthroughs box)

  7. Now you've got a screen with a bunch of tabs towards the top.  Click on the one that says "Publicize".
  8. Go down towards the bottom 1/3 of the screen where it says "Boost Your Cross-Promotion Potential" and click on BuzzBoost.
  9. Now there are some settings here that are personal preference.  Number of Feeds to display (I selected "all"), you can change the title, just go on down the page and make the selections...I selected Full HTML for "Display Item Content". I didn't change anything else on this page...just click ACTIVATE.
  10. Copy the script code that shows up on this page and paste it into the html on the page of your website that you want it to show up on.  That's it!  You're done!  If you want to see what it looks like, you can see it on my Real Estate Virtual Assistant Blog called The 10 Hour VA

Best of luck to you...feel free to email me if you cannot figure out how to set it up, I'll help if I can. (Please allow up to 24 hours for a response from me.)

AFTER NOTE: Todd Clark was kind enough to comment and remind us all that we should subscribe to our own blogs via email as well so that we know what our subscribers are seeing.  Here's a link to his post with more on that subject.

ANOTHER AFTER NOTE:  I noticed tonight that when I was reading my AR blog on my website, that the individual post links weren't working. After researching all over the Internet and not finding a solution, I decided to try using the Atom feed instead of the RSS feed, and for whatever reason, that solved the problem!  If you find you're having the same problem, just log into Feedburner and "edit feed details" on that feed by pasting in the new feed URL that ends in /atom (you can really just go replace the /rss on the end of your feed with /atom) - make sure you save the feed changes, once you do that it should work fine!

FINAL AFTER NOTE:  A couple of you wonderful people who commented were concerned about what importing your blog into your website would do to your search engine results.  I contacted Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings (www.HighRankings.com), who is well known with web developers for her intelligence and insight when it comes to all things SEO, and she had this to say about the "Members Only" posts: "...don’t worry about it. The search engines aren’t members so they don’t even know the original content exists. They will only see the other version." And this to say about all other posts: "It would still not really be a problem. Google would just choose which version to show in their search results."  Thanks, Jill!!! 


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BIO:  Christine Wade has successfully owned and operated a Real Estate Virtual Assistant business, specializing in Real Estate Support Services, since March of 2000. I have several accreditations and have received many client testimonials over the years.  I have over 26 years of administrative experience, I am a licensed agent in California (#01442002) and I specialize in on-going, value-based services provided to real estate agents and brokers...long term relationships with my clients are my greatest success stories. I was a contributing author over at RealBlogging.com, you can read my articles that I have written, all directed towards real estate professionals, by clicking here

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Comments (103)

Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Suzanne - Thank you for your nice words, they are much appreciated!!!

Nov 21, 2008 07:27 AM
Bryan Schroeder
Equity Generation - Salem, OR

Great info.  I am new to this and this just adds to me growing on ActiveRain

Nov 21, 2008 09:54 AM
Tim Storm
Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation - Irvine, CA
Orange County FHA and VA Home Loan Specialist

I had been trying to figure this out. I knew there had to be a way to do it. Thank you so much. I'm going to check it out right now.

Nov 21, 2008 10:06 AM
Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Bryan - thanks for the nice comment!!!  Growing's always good!

Tim - Happy to help, let me know how it turns out for you :-)

Nov 21, 2008 10:43 AM
Debi Boucher
Real Estate Showcase Photography - Woodland Park, CO
"Realtor Showcase" - Real Estate Photography/Virtual Tours

Christine, Thank you so very much for this post! It took awhile, but I have a link to my blog via FeedBurner on my website! (and I can find something else to do now!) I'm thrilled!

Debi

Nov 21, 2008 11:53 AM
Bruce & Mary Smith
Savannah Lakes Homes - McCormick, SC
REALTORS, Savannah Lakes Village McCormick SC

Reading this answered a lot of my questions.  Thanks so much.

Nov 21, 2008 01:30 PM
Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Debi - Glad you figured it out, and if you're happy than I'm happy...but I'm nosy and tried to go look at it...and I can't find it!  LOL  Where is it?

Bruce & Mary - Glad to have been of some help, thanks for stopping by!

Nov 21, 2008 02:36 PM
Debi Boucher
Real Estate Showcase Photography - Woodland Park, CO
"Realtor Showcase" - Real Estate Photography/Virtual Tours

Christine, I posted it as a link on my website- The first link below is directly to the feed, the second link is to my website page, click on 'Visit my Blog'

http://feeds.feedburner.com/debiboucher-woodlandparkrealtorASP

http://www.woodlandparkrealestate-stagedhomes.com/links.html

I have more tweaking to do, on FeedBurner and on my website, but at least the thing is there!

Would welcome any advice where needed.

Thanks again!

Debi

Nov 21, 2008 03:15 PM
Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Debi - I'm going to email you directly to see if I can help :-)

Nov 21, 2008 03:25 PM
Wayne L. Brown
Franklin Advantage Inc. - Alpine, CA

Christine.

Wow !  Lot's of techno stuff, but certainly worth the research.

Thanks for the heads up.

Nov 21, 2008 05:37 PM
Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Wayne -  thanks for commenting...it's not nearly as hard as it sounds once you actually sit down and dive into it.  Let me know if I can help and how it works out for you!

Nov 21, 2008 05:45 PM
Daniel J. Brudnok, REALTOR
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Fox & Roach, REALTORS - Exton - PA License #RS-225179-L / Delaware License #RS-0025038 - Downingtown, PA
SRES, e-PRO,ABR,GREEN,CSP

Christine,

WOW.....I appreciate the detailed trail.....I will get on this today......have a great weekend.

Nov 21, 2008 11:11 PM
Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Dan - Good luck with it all, let me know how it goes and thanks for commenting!!!

 

Nov 22, 2008 02:43 AM
Mayra Espinosa Realtor San Mateo Pacifica Homes
Mayra Espinosa Broker- Realtor | Call 650-996-8961 - Pacifica, CA
San Mateo County Real Estate | Buy | Sell | Invest

Thank you for sharing this information with us. I will sign for an account at Feedburner.  Thank you again!!!!

Nov 25, 2008 11:21 AM
Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Mayra - Good luck with Feedburner, let me know if I can be of some assistance! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and thank you for stopping by!

Nov 26, 2008 02:01 AM
Crystal Acohido
Honolulu HomeLoans, Inc. - Honolulu, HI
Sr. VP, CMPS

thank you!  i have had problems with this.  i will give it my best shot!

Dec 01, 2008 02:22 AM
Kelly Kilpatrick
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Broker-Associate

Thank you. I've been meaning to look into this but was unsure about SEO issues.  By the way, I LOVE your blog name.

Dec 01, 2008 02:46 AM
Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Crystal - You're welcome!  Let me know how it works out for you and if you have any questions!

Kelly - Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting...SEO is always a concern, but it doesn't seem to be much of an issue with this.

Dec 01, 2008 03:21 AM
Troy Erickson AZ Realtor (602) 295-6807
HomeSmart - Chandler, AZ
Your Chandler, Ahwatukee, and East Valley Realtor

Christine - I finally got back around to getting this done.  I now have my active rain blog posts on my website thanks to you.  Congrats on this being a featured post.  You deserve it.

Sep 18, 2009 01:08 AM
Christine Wade
Christine Wade - Derby, VT
Operations Strategist / Online Business Manager

Troy - Doesn't matter how long it took, just that you got it done :-)  Great job!

Sep 18, 2009 02:08 AM