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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Real Estate Blogs…The Essentials

If you have taken the leap and are indeed maintaining a real estate blog, some thoughts on your content:

Stay focused on your profession or the reason you are blogging. Post good quality, original content whenever possible. If you can give value towards your business and the topics at hand, your blog articles can help establish you as an authority on your local market.

A real estate blog should be specific to your region or marketplace (unless you are on a more general, national level). You need to focus your posts locally.

Be an authority. People like to deal with people that know their business…show them you know yours!

Of course, there are times where you will provide a good link to someone else’s content and the like when you find a good read for your audience elsewhere.

Bottom line, if you provide good content on a regular basis, you will be rewarded not only by folks using your site(s), but also by the search engines who are really getting good and giving credit where credit is due (by ranking sites accordingly).