{"id":14318,"date":"2011-03-14T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2011-03-14T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:29:08","slug":"idx-and-blogs-a-match-made-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14318\/idx-and-blogs-a-match-made-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"IDX and BLOGS A match made in heaven."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was trying to respond to Jeff Brown\u2019s last post about successful blogging and my comments just kept getting too long. So I thought I would send it to Greg as a blog post and see what he thought about posting it. Now, here we are! Thanks Greg!<\/p>\n

While some people are out there looking for the most experienced, thoughtful, succinct and eloquent agent they can find, I actually think those folks are in the minority. I have always felt like the average Joe doesn’t think that we are rocket scientist type consultants, they think we are salesmen.<\/p>\n

Most sellers are looking for the listing agent who has the most signs and success in their neighborhood, or someone who has been referred to them. A few will call based on good blogging, but the vast majority finds the agents that help them by looking at homes that are listed in their area. They have two ways of contacting them, either by calling on the sign or by finding them online in someone’s IDX.<\/p>\n

Most buyers don’t think they need an agent to help them; they just want to see houses.<\/p>\n

A successful blog in my opinion doesn’t have to necessarily convince the potential seller or buyer that you are the one; it has to convince Google that your site has enough authority to place it near the top of the results when someone searches for real estate in your area. Blogs do this in two ways. The first is that Google just loves the blog format. I have written a blog post hit \u201cpublish\u201d, realized I had a typo in the title, fixed it immediately and found it indexed in Google with the typo. The post was indexed within 3 minutes of posting. \u00a0My website is a blog, even though it has 128 static pages and I have only posted 28 posts. The posts add content; the comments add content (my 28 posts have about a thousand comments).\u00a0 I would like to post more but I am too busy dealing with the leads.<\/p>\n

I would suggest that when you are measuring bankable results from a Realtor Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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