I have been blogging now for a few months on ActiveRain and like all good members I have been reading blogs and commenting and trying to learn all I can about blogging and the ways to use my blogging in my real estate career. My blogs have been a mix of things. I have posted on Localism to showcase my community and I have posted for members things of interest to me and I hope to my fellow ActiveRain members. Now that we can have outside blogs I have an outside blog which I link to from my website. I am now a member of Digg and I have read that it is a good idea to also post your blogs there by linking to your blog. I am confused at this point though. Should the link go directly to my outside blog, my ActiveRain blog, or to my website where they can access my blog. Should I post all my blogs to digg or just the ones I think people in general will like. I would love to increase traffic to my website so is there a better way to access my outside blog rather than just linking to it from my website? As soon as I feel like I have mastered some pieces of this technology maze I find there is more that I don't know and that I am not utilizing. What do you other real estate professionals do with your blogs? I haven't even made it to doing any videos which seems to be the buzz now? Will I ever learn it all? Any advice?
HI Teresa - When you learn the answers I would also like to know. Like you I am trying to increase traffic to my website.
Just blog everywhere possible, push your words you want people to find on Google and the rest will take care of it's self
Thanks Dick. So you are saying if I want people to find me when they search for Florence, SC real estate to make sure I am blogging about it!
Teresa- Whenever you have a chance you should point your links to you primary website. This should be the center of your Internet marketing campaigns. All other marketing and social networking should revolve around your primary website.
Best wishes!
IMNJ beat me to the punch... but how about an echo? It's great to get the word out in as many places as possible but to promote & link back to the main site as much as possible.
Don't forget to have some balance with your links back to your website. They should not all be to your 'home', 'index' or 'welcome' page. You need to have deeper links to your about page, and others more relevant to the linking page.