We have something fantastic to share with you this morning.
Hot on the heels of the release of community pages on ActiveRain, we have implemented a system to reward members for writing great hyper-local content. We will now have the ability to feature hyper-local posts.
Hyper-local posts that are featured will be awarded 300 additional points and the blog post will remain sticky at the top of the community page. Featured hyper-local posts will capture the essence of an area and serve to enhance the visitors understanding of the community/neighborhood/area about which it is written.
(Just a side note, because I know this will come up......these featured hyper-local posts will not become featured on the main feature board on the home page)
As the days and weeks go by, we will compile some of the best hyper local posts so our members can get a better idea of what constitutes a featured hyper-local post. We will also feature some of these posts on the home page over the coming days and weeks to additionally give our members a better idea of what a great hyper-local post looks like.
If a community has a featured hyper-local post, that community will automatically have a 'Featured Real Estate News' section created on the community page. The community will then display the last 3 featured posts for that area.
We are firm believers that hyper local content is the best way to reach consumers in your market. It affords you the best opportunity to reach consumers much further in the buying process than the traditional internet home buyer. What is hyper-local? It's content that targets something more specific than a city. It might be about a specific community in your town. It could be content that focuses on a specific sub-division or condo complex. This kind of content is easier to get to rank in the search engines and it's the kind of things people search for as they really being to narrow their home search down. It's also the kind of content your neighbors search for that allows you to market to them by being the central purveyor of information for your area.
We're excited to be able to reward great hyper local content and hope this serves to elevate the quality of the information our members deliver to their communities, the people that live in those communities, and (most of all) the people looking to live in those communities.
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