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Blog Marketing For Dummies

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Services for Real Estate Pros with A Serendipity World

Blog marketing is not all that hard if you know what you are doing. However, if this is your very first blog and you are wondering how to get readers to it then you are in the right place. First let me just say that marketing your blog is going to require patience, and being consistent. You will have to update your blog frequently if you want to keep readers coming back for more. We are all guilty of making a blog, wanting it to be great, putting only one entry into it and then never going back to update it again. I think everyone in the cyber world has done this at one time or another.

Here are some great tips to use when trying to get your blog out there and get new readers.

Make sure that your blog has the track back feature. Let me tell you why. When you have the track back feature on your blog, you are allowing other people to link to your blog. Maybe someone has a post to post on their blog that is relevant to one of yours. They can use the trackback to your post, and send their readers to your blog so that they know what they are referring to. Another good thing to remember is that if someone gives you a track back, it is a courtesy to return that to their blog if at all possible.

Having a Google account and submitting a site-map is almost a must when you are blog marketing. Doing so will allow Google to know how often you are updating your blog and they will automatically know of any changes that you have made to it as well. This will let Google get those new pages indexed faster and get them into search results much quicker than if you did not have the site-map. There is a certain way you have to do the site map for Google, and they can explain that to you. Just know this is an important step to blog marketing.

Exchanging links with authority blogs and websites that are in your same market is another great way to get the word out about your blog. The authority sites are going to have a higher page rank, and will also be listed high in Google’s search results. So do some searches and check those out and see if they are up to exchanging links. If they are not, you could always just add those into your blogroll. You do not need permission to do that if they are not into linking. However, in the world of blogs, most blog owners are thankful for all links, and are willing to return the favor.

You are going to want to be sure that all of your posts are formatted. Doing so will leave out any confusion for the search engines and you will have everything nice and neat and all organized. The label tags are there for a reason when you are dealing with blogs. So using them and not leaving them out is a great idea.

Tracking is another part of blog marketing that is so very important. You want to be able to track your visitors and clickers to know where they are coming from. You want to be able to tell what keywords they searched on to find your blog and where they did their searching. Doing so will help take out all of the guess work when it comes to blog marketing. You will know what keywords are working, and which are not.

Allowing RSS feeds from your blog is also another great blog marketing tool. You are going to find that when you allow RSS feeds, your blog is going to end up all over the Internet with a link back to it and that is a good thing. This is a wonderful way to get links to your blog with little or no effort. People that subscribe to your blog’s RSS feeds are able to then post your blog posts on their sites or blogs. Which in return gives you a link on their site or page that they have you on.

Blog marketing is only as hard as you make it. Use these tips, blog good - quality - content and get your blog out there !

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Comments (4)

Sue Ellett
Synergy Property Group | Spyglass Realty - Austin, TX
Austin, TX, Lake Travis, Dripping Springs

thanks, Melissa for the blog marketing tips.  Have a great V-Day, too!

Feb 14, 2012 12:45 AM
Charlie Ragonesi
AllMountainRealty.com - Big Canoe, GA
Homes - Big Canoe, Jasper, North Georgia Pros

Hi Melissa it is good to see you posting . Hope you are enjoying the warm weather where you are. I will try and figure out this google thing for a site map

 

Feb 14, 2012 12:47 AM
Jill Sackler
Charles Rutenberg Realty Inc. 516-575-7500 - Long Beach, NY
LI South Shore Real Estate - Broker Associate

Excellent and suggested. Thanks for the great tips. I'm not so sure it's marketing for dummies, though. Some of these tips seemed more sophisticated. Can you tell us more about the track back and site maps features?

Feb 14, 2012 12:56 AM
Melissa Grant
A Serendipity World - Greenbackville, VA
The Law of Attraction In Life & Business

Okay, here is a link for google, that really explains the site maps and can walk you through it : http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184

As far as trackbacks : If you are using Wordpress, which most do, trackbacks will be converted to pingbacks, in other words, If you link to another WordPress site in any blog post, they’ll be notified automatically using pingbacks, and no other action will be necessary. In essence your blog will tell their blog that you hyperlinked to their post. IN return their blog will come back to your blog, automatically and it will be verified that a hyperlink does exist. If you google trackbacks and ping backs you will find pro's and con's of both but keep in mind Wordpress converts as pingback - which is the better option.

 

Feb 14, 2012 01:09 AM