Comments on: Why You Should Host Your Real Estate Blog on Your Own Domain

By: jason

jason — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:42:52 +0000

if it isn’t on your own domain then you truly do not own your own site

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:11:12 +0000

Vicky –
You can create a blog here on BiggerPockets at http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs and link back to your website. Another great route is to add a WordPress blog to your site. You can learn more at http://www.wordpress.com

By: Vicky Mena

Vicky Mena — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:04:37 +0000

I am new to blogging. I am a Realtor in Houston and I have a website … I would like to know how I can start a blog and link it to my website. Please let me know.

Thank you
Vicky

By: Bryan Ellis

Bryan Ellis — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:12:22 +0000

Man, this post was the best that I have read all day! My website (really a blog) is one of the greatest marketing tools that I own for my real estate business. I provide lots of value for people in the real estate industry, thus creating tons of loyal readers. Plus I host it myself. Joshua is definitely on to something here.

By: Joy

Joy — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:15:00 +0000

I have to admit Branding is everything in business, but without any means of strategic marketing be it online or offline, your brand still would draw less customers.

I’ve known this site brandmelive.com that helps and guides and individual or startup company on how to create your own unique brand that stands out from the rest. In less than a month, I assure you, you will start to experience great amount of success on your brand or business with the efforts you put in. Believe me, I’m one of the million that benefited from that site.

By: DS

DS — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:22:11 +0000

I definitely agree with you that self hosting is the way to go. The value of owning your own content is huge especially when you consider the appreciating value of an aged domain, aged content, and aged backlinks.

By: Samuel Awosolu

Samuel Awosolu — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:53:56 +0000

Joshua,

Blogging is the best kept secret if you understand the full potential it. I know people have been told to outsource their content or have other people write for them. Then you lose your brand identity and the ability to connect to your readers.

Your right not everyone is a writer but there are TONS of resources out there to improve your writing style for blogging. If all else fells. Podcast your thoughts and post it. No one does this! You can even do video. I have tried the shortcut to blogging and it doesn’t work. I have spent time working on building my content and I know over time my writing style will evolve into something palpable for my readers

By: shutters

shutters — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:22:53 +0000

I would always host it on another domain and even set up two that mirror each other – one on wordpress and one on blogger as its better for SEO in terms of links.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:56:06 +0000

Branding is really helped when a blog is self-hosted, along with creating an identity separate from others within your industry. I absolutely agree with your points.

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:46:16 +0000

I can’t wait to read everyone’s blog about buying real estate and properties in general. So much reading, so little time!

By: Ned Carey

Ned Carey — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:44:25 +0000

Josh,

I am disappointed that your blog is no longer do follow. I find that the Akismet plugin takes care of most of the spam. However I understand that you have a much bigger spam problem than my little site.

Personally I don’t mind someone using good anchor text in the name field. What’s the point of giving a do follow link if all it does is help them rank for their name? As long as the comment is valid, I’ll approve it. If it is a lousy comment like a couple above, I report it as spam, name or no name.

When I do use anchor text myself in the name field I make sure to sign my real name in the body of the post.

Ned Carey

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:59:59 +0000

The irony is that Myrtle Beach hasn’t read any of the discussion in this post or any our kind requests to act human, posted right above the “ADD COMMENT” link. Please NOTE: “Blog comments exist so readers can engage in conversation. We kindly ask that you use your real name instead of some keywords for your name. Not doing so may result in your comment being removed. ”

I’ll not remove your comment because I can use your post as an example. While your comment is certainly relevant, how can anyone take you seriously if you’re not willing to personalize it and use your name or at least a pseudonym. All you’re doing is looking for some free link love, which you’re sadly not going to get because this site is a NO-Follow site.

Sorry.

Can we all start acting like humans here? It would have been much easier, and would be better for you in the long run to just post as Jerry Pinkas (the name found on your website) OR Jerry From Myrtle Beach RE.

I wish this conversation were more about your words, but I can’t let this slide . . . it is getting ridiculous already.

At least I have the topic of my next post . . .