The Blogging Basics: Making the Most of Your Real Estate Blog Part I
So you are now the proud owner of a brand new real estate blog, huh? Well you're going to need some tips and advice, and as I told you before, that's what I'm here for. Let me introduce you to our first blog series. I'm going to give you ten extremely helpful tips, as well as examples when I can, that will make your real estate blog a hit. I am going to give them to you two by two, so they will be easier to digest. You can check back weekly for the next two tips.
1. Digg It.
When you write a new post, it's very important to submit it to social networking sites so others can find it and stumble on to your real estate blog. Digg is the easiest, and you'll get the most exposure from it. You'll have to go to Digg.com and create a free account, and then you're ready to Digg. Each time you write a new post, login to Digg and follow the steps to submit your new masterpiece. I do this with each of my posts, and when this one's complete I'll Digg it, too. You can also Digg posts written by your favorite fellow real estate bloggers. Most blogs will have a little button that says Digg at the bottom of the post. If you click it, you will be prompted to login to Digg and the site will recognize that you loved the post you're Diggin'. It's kind of like voting. Except that popularity is more important than delegates in this case.
2. Say It Right.
Once upon a time you were taught that grammar, spelling and punctuation are important. And then you probably forgot it, as did most of the world. Well, it's time to dust off that part of your brain, because one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to look uneducated. I don't mean that you should use big words and sound like a dictionary. That's boring. What you do need to do, is make sure you use words properly and by all means, please use your spell check! The good folks at Microsoft were nice enough to provide you with all these fancy tools, like a spell check and a thesaurus, because they intended you to use them. And if you don't write in Word, that's no excuse either, because most of the popular blog platforms (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.) come with a spell check. You can also use http://www.dictionary.com/ or http://www.thesaurus.com/ for extra help if you need it. I can't tell you how important this rule is! Look at it this way... You are trying to become an expert on real estate to gain traffic (and hopefully leads), which is why you blog. You want to look good so people keep reading what you're saying. But if you're saying it with the wrong words or you're spelling everything wrong, you won't look too smart will you? If you don't believe me, check out what Brian Clark had to say on the subject.
Congratulations, you have just learned your first two blogging tips! See, I told you it would be easy. So I'll see you here next week for the next two. In the meantime let me know if anything I have explained is confusing, or if you disagree with me, or if you loved it. Especially if you loved it.
1. Digg It.
When you write a new post, it's very important to submit it to social networking sites so others can find it and stumble on to your real estate blog. Digg is the easiest, and you'll get the most exposure from it. You'll have to go to Digg.com and create a free account, and then you're ready to Digg. Each time you write a new post, login to Digg and follow the steps to submit your new masterpiece. I do this with each of my posts, and when this one's complete I'll Digg it, too. You can also Digg posts written by your favorite fellow real estate bloggers. Most blogs will have a little button that says Digg at the bottom of the post. If you click it, you will be prompted to login to Digg and the site will recognize that you loved the post you're Diggin'. It's kind of like voting. Except that popularity is more important than delegates in this case.
2. Say It Right.
Once upon a time you were taught that grammar, spelling and punctuation are important. And then you probably forgot it, as did most of the world. Well, it's time to dust off that part of your brain, because one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to look uneducated. I don't mean that you should use big words and sound like a dictionary. That's boring. What you do need to do, is make sure you use words properly and by all means, please use your spell check! The good folks at Microsoft were nice enough to provide you with all these fancy tools, like a spell check and a thesaurus, because they intended you to use them. And if you don't write in Word, that's no excuse either, because most of the popular blog platforms (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.) come with a spell check. You can also use http://www.dictionary.com/ or http://www.thesaurus.com/ for extra help if you need it. I can't tell you how important this rule is! Look at it this way... You are trying to become an expert on real estate to gain traffic (and hopefully leads), which is why you blog. You want to look good so people keep reading what you're saying. But if you're saying it with the wrong words or you're spelling everything wrong, you won't look too smart will you? If you don't believe me, check out what Brian Clark had to say on the subject.
Congratulations, you have just learned your first two blogging tips! See, I told you it would be easy. So I'll see you here next week for the next two. In the meantime let me know if anything I have explained is confusing, or if you disagree with me, or if you loved it. Especially if you loved it.
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and also try to ping it...
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