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Look Ma I've got my own ActiveRain Channel!

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I've got my own ActiveRain Channel!  Wait it's just a Topic.  But it got me a whole page on ActiveRain...

Real Living HER Open House List

Home Buying Channel Real Living HER Open House List

and the Google links????

If you Google Real Living HER open house I come up.  Would anyone Google Real Living HER Open House List? Maybe.  Maybe not.  Real Living HER is the number one brokerage in Central Ohio.  The open house list is more than a list of homes. 

If you Google "HER open house"  I am on page one... if you Google various suburb names I am on page one...

I don't want to debate the value of open houses with other real estate agents.

ActiveRain Channels and Topics

I have written a series on ActiveRain Channels and it seems I still have lots more to say about Channels.  Links to the three part series plus one below...

I did NOT read the Channels directions when they came out in September 2008 Brad Andersohn's Intro

I watched the video in Bob Stewarts post and based on that I formulated my plan for Channels.  Bob Stewart's geeky post with the white board... Rand Fishkin.

I've got my own ActiveRain Channel  Topic and the whole page to myself but am I doing it right?  I don't know...

When you look at the list of TOPICS in most any channel it's huge...  Is that good or bad?

Another member and I were chatting via email about a member taking a Topic on the Home Buying Channel hostage.  One of the pages that is featured on page one.  The funny thing is the member is not a RainMaker so consumers can not see his posts.

The official word on ActiveRain Channels

I'd love to see something from Brad or Bob about ActiveRain Channels 2010... Where Channels stand.  What we're doing right.  What's funky (I hate to say wrong...) Thinking outside the box may be good...  Whether Channels and Topics help traffic.... what they can see on the backside that we can't from our view.

One thing I know is wrong?  Long Topics.  "Real Living HER Open House List" is long.  Of course the company name is long.   Brad said in the Intro "keep em short"

New ActiveRain Members Feature YOURSELF

A three part series on the ActiveRain Channels:

ActiveRain Channels mattter

ActiveRain Channels (why channels and the history of ActiveRain Channels, Brad's Intro, Bob's Geeky post with the white board that inspired my Real Living HER Open House List)

ActiveRain's ActiveRain Channel is ActiveRain's Junk Drawer

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Michelle Francis
Tim Francis Realty LLC - Atlanta, GA
Realtor, Buckhead Atlanta Homes for Sale & Lease

Maureen,  

Great post.  I'm off to work on Channels and Topics, as I still have a lot to learn!  Glad you are all over page one of Google.

Thanks for sharing.  All the best, Michelle

Jan 10, 2010 02:12 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

thanks Michelle.  This is one thing I was doing throughout 2009 and I am not sure if my snarly categories affected this in the search engines.  I suppose if I had them hidden on my outside blog they were doing my outside blog no good. 

Jan 10, 2010 02:39 AM
Amy Hahn
Pine Knoll Shores Realty - Morehead City, NC
Realtor/Broker - Crystal Coast, NC

Maureen, After your comment on my post, I had to check this out.  Thank You.  I have read your activerain channels posts and I have bookmarked for future reference.

Jan 10, 2010 08:29 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Thanks Amy,  I think our posts and our brands  will stand out better if  we use the Channels and Topics, both in the search engines and on ActiveRain. 

Like groups I wish there was a pop up that told you as you are posting whether a post fits, but there is not,

Jan 10, 2010 08:53 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Now that your post about personal branding is public I am going to leave this here and hope you see it...  I would look so critical to go back there and tell you this.... because your post is NOT about Channels and Topics and mine is... if that makes sense.

Let's think of this as a helpful hint rather than criticism....

I said the Offline Marketing Channel (a Professional Channel on ActiveRain ) has "Branding " Topic.  I should have said it has a "Personal Branding"  Topic.

No " and spelling counts. 

Personal Branding is ONE of three topics in that Channel that are "hard wired"  to the front page.  While I can not prove that those TOPICS have more juice than the Gazillion topics on other pages created by members ...like my very own page for "Real Living HER Open House List"   I think from watching and re-watching Rand Fishkin's white board video (on Bob's post)  and reading Bob's post about the changes Channels made...Your content would be one click in from the front page. 

I would use one of the three featured Topics on any of the Channels in a heart beat... if my content matched those Topics. 

 

Jan 11, 2010 12:13 AM
Amy Hahn
Pine Knoll Shores Realty - Morehead City, NC
Realtor/Broker - Crystal Coast, NC

I just saw it. Thanks!

Jan 11, 2010 09:10 AM
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