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Spreading out your blog posts

By Sharon Simms

Real Estate Agent with Coastal Properties Group International - Christie's International

March 22, 2008 01:02 PM

Have you setup google alerts for your name? for the topics you frequently blog about? You should.

I've heard that google and the other search engines respond in kind - that is, if you post frequently, they check your site frequently. I wonder if they only pick up the latest post ....

When I post daily, I get a google alert almost every day. Sometimes it comes in 20 minutes. If I wait and post several at once rather than spreading them out, typically I'll still get one or possible two google alerts a day - but not one for every post that day.

So - try and get yourself into the habit of posting a little a lot of the time, rather than a lot a little of the time. habits

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Debbie DiFonzo

Debbie DiFonzo - United Country VIP Realty, SW Missouri - Lebanon, MO

Lebanon MO and Buffalo Missouri Real Estate

I love Google alerts. Interesting observation about how posting several in one day does not produce the same results. Something to look into.

Mar 22, 2008 01:22 PM

Mary Strang

Viroqua, WI

Sharon what great information, thanks!!!

Mar 22, 2008 01:38 PM

Sharon Simms

Coastal Properties Group International - Christie's International - Saint Petersburg, FL

St. Petersburg FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS

Deborah - it's really easy. You can either google "google alert" or go to http://www.google.com/alerts and then put in whatever terms you want to search.

Debbie - perhaps it's a matter of how deep the spider goes.

Mary - hope it helps.

Mar 22, 2008 02:28 PM

Brian Block

RE/MAX Allegiance, Managing Broker/Branch Vice President - McLean, VA

Northern Virginia & D.C. Real Estate

Sharon, I love Google Alerts. I've got them set for my name as well as for some other topics of interest. I'm always pleased when I see one of my blog posts end up there and also find some interesting other things through the alerts.

Mar 23, 2008 12:18 AM

Brian - I also have set up google alerts for a couple of my competitors locally, so I'll know what they're up to online, and for a couple of people I admire nationally so I can follow their examples. It IS fun to see yourself come up.

Mar 23, 2008 05:00 AM

William Johnson

Retired - La Jolla, CA

Retired

So well said. Read Sharon's best selling new book on the New York Times Best Seller List, "Posting A Little A Lot Of The Time Rather Than A Lot, A Little Of The Time or How To Blog The Right Way" By Sharon Simms, America's Blogging Queen.

Mar 23, 2008 05:37 PM

Nice Huh!

You could use this as a quote by the author of TheRealEstateTextBook

Mar 23, 2008 05:39 PM

Randy L. Prothero

eXp Realty - Hollister, MO

Missouri REALTOR, (808) 384-5645

The Google Alerts have not been consistant for me. I also get them for old posts ever now and then.

Mar 26, 2008 09:42 PM

William - I'm available for guest appearances and book signings, for a price ... always good quotes from you.

Randy - I get the for old posts, too. I find area posts, whether on outside blogs or localism tend to get picked up more rapidly than ones on real estate or general topics.

Mar 27, 2008 12:00 PM

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