{"id":2178,"date":"2007-11-08T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2007-11-08T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T17:42:12","slug":"chasing-my-long-tail-my-truth-about-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2178\/chasing-my-long-tail-my-truth-about-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing My Long Tail – My Truth About SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found myself this morning checking out our blog traffic stats. I don’t know why I do this exactly – It’s idle curiosity, I suppose. I’ll know when my blog hits the big time. That will be the day when I am so busy meeting with clients and closing escrows that I\u00a0won’t have time to visit our site’s back end.<\/p>\n

We blog for sport, we blog for exposure, but mostly we blog for business. There – I said it. Anyone who says\u00a0otherwise is not being honest. Oh, sure, it has become an addiction, and I sincerely believe that if I retired from my day job today, I would still be blogging tomorrow. It can have that kind of hold on you.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, blogging needs to either be a hobby or a component of my business plan. As of press time, it is a little of both. Speaking to the business side of things, my Google-ability is generally of very little concern to me. “Blasphemy!” you say. Let me explain.<\/p>\n

Unless the person stumbling on to my site through\u00a0a search bar\u00a0is looking to buy or sell a home in San Diego, they are of no value to me from a business perspective. Further, I am most interested in the person who is looking to buy or sell a home in San Diego and who actually lives<\/em> in San Diego. Sure, there is the potential to attract the eyes and business of people relocating from Duluth, but relocation business is time intensive, needle-in-the-haystack work. We welcome the work, but it is a lower percentage play, much more difficult to cultivate and convert. So if you agree that the local audience is the audience for which you perform, why give a fig about SEO?<\/p>\n

Everyone give a warm welcome to Panama!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jay Thompson through one of his posts<\/a> turned me on to Who’s Amung Us<\/a>. They have a nifty little map widget that allows you to display current and past visitors to your site and their location. Here is what my visitor map for the San Diego Home Blog looks like:<\/p>\n

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(Note: The previously posted real-time map has Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 I found myself this morning checking out our blog traffic stats. I don’t know why I do this exactly – It’s idle curiosity, I suppose. I’ll know when my blog hits the big time. That will be the day when I am so busy meeting with clients and closing escrows that I\u00a0won’t have time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2309,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2309\/blogging-is-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":2178,"position":0},"title":"Blogging is dead?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Hugh Macleod:I guess my point is, if you're one of these people considering giving up on blogging in exchange for paying more attention to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace, or whatever they throw at us mere mortals, bear in mind you are giving up on something rather unique and wonderful.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1654,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1654\/teri-lussier-blogging-star\/","url_meta":{"origin":2178,"position":1},"title":"Teri Lussier, blogging star","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From email from Teri Lussier:By the way, I've changed brokerages. 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