{"id":5366,"date":"2008-11-01T01:28:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2008-11-02T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T16:14:52","slug":"real-estate-blogging-hits-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5366\/real-estate-blogging-hits-the-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Blogging hits the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the truly fun things about being a dawg and writing here is when readers communicate with you. I received an email yesterday from Mike Kennedy a REALTOR (whom I had never met) selling homes in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland<\/a>. (beautiful website BTW-my compliments on a job well done there). He tipped me off to an article in the NY Times about real estate blogging<\/a>. Thanks Mike, for the the kind words, the heads up, and pleased to make your acquaintance. It is an article worth reading! I promised you a post on the subject and here ’tis!<\/p>\n

I was especially drawn to this paragraph of the NYTimes piece:<\/p>\n

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The first thing that caught my eye were the words “pages and pages”…and the fact that good writing about everything from diners to energy drilling was what helped this buyer decide on his REALTOR. But the other part that grabbed me was the first sentence. Yeah, the one about how the guy FOUND the blog in the first place.<\/p>\n

This REALTOR’S website and his blog<\/a> ranks #2 on Google currently for all sorts of terms. Terms like “catskills real estate”, “sullivan county real estate”, “catskills new york real estate”, etc. That’s key because it was how his blog was found in the first place.<\/p>\n

I have said before that a search engine friendly blog (along with a site) may well be the ultimate marketing weapon in the hands of a REALTOR that can write. It is a lethal combination of traffic and stickiness. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I enter this article into evidence as proof of that concept. (grin)<\/p>\n

We are going to have some good clean fun in Orlando, talking about how to help you get your blog\/site to be search engine friendly and rank and get the traffic that it deserves. Seriously. No more or less than that. Nothing that I would not be proud to teach if the folks from Google were standing in the room.<\/p>\n

You do not need to try and trick Google (in fact, long term that almost NEVER pays off!). You do not need to be bombastic. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the truly fun things about being a dawg and writing here is when readers communicate with you. I received an email yesterday from Mike Kennedy a REALTOR (whom I had never met) selling homes in Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. (beautiful website BTW-my compliments on a job well done there). 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