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8 Tips on Running Your Blog Quickly and Efficiently

by Christian Russell | October 15, 2009

For professionals and business owners, time is scarce, yet it should be clear by now that blogging offers such a strong return that it should not be ignored. So what’s the solution? How is it possible for a busy professional to work blogging into an already crazy schedule? Here are a few tips:

Tip one: Just post once or twice a week

It’s been said that posting every day is great for search rankings. It’s true that more is better if you’re shooting for the best search rankings possible. However, search rankings are only one of many ways to benefit from blogging. And not posting every day does not detract from any of those other benefits. It also does not remove all search ranking benefits. Many, many successful bloggers only post once or twice a week. Post every day if you like and can maintain that type of schedule. However, don’t think about it in black and white. If you can only post once a week or so, there is still a lot of good you can do with a blog. Not being able to post something new every day is not a reason to not start a blog for your business.

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Real Estate Marketing

7 Ways to Drive Traffic To Your Real Estate Web Site Without Search Engine Listings – Part 1

by Peter Kolat | October 10, 2009

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to get your listings on Google can be a very daunting task for some in real estate. In fact, with Google “slapping” search engine listings whenever they feel like they need to, it can be very hard to maintain first page listings.

Therefore, I wanted give you some quick tips and strategies to drive traffic to your real estate website without relying on Google. The following strategies are in no particular order. What I would recommend is for you to see which 2-3 strategies suit you best and then run with them.

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Real Estate Blogging Case Study: SEO Benefits of BiggerPockets Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin | August 30, 2009

Earlier today I was browsing through some of the blogs on our BiggerPockets Blog Network and saw a post that caught my attention. It didn’t grab me as much for the content, but because the author shared with everyone the fact that the post had first page rankings on Google, soon after going live.

The post, titled I Buy Houses in Joplin Missouri, written two days ago, is now the top result for “buy houses Joplin” and the second result for “buy houses Joplin Missouri” out of 107,000 and 110,000 total results in Google’s index.


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Real Estate

The Top 35 Real Estate Blogs Revisited almost 3 Years Later

by Joshua Dorkin | May 20, 2009

Back on August 25, 2006 we put together a hugely popular list of The Top 35 Real Estate Blogs, which continues to drive great traffic to those on it today.
What is astounding is how quickly sites are falling off the list!
Since its initial publication, the list has been trimmed down to twenty (20) blogs. [...]

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Real Estate

Announcing TheClozing.com: Doing for Real Estate What TechMeme did for Tech?

by Joshua Dorkin | May 8, 2009

Just this week a couple of tech geeks (I say that with the utmost love and respect) launched a site devoted to organizing mainstream media real estate news with related social media back-stories from blogs, in an effort to change how we find real estate news and information.
Founded by Anthony Barba & Joseph [...]

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Real Estate Blogger? Introducing BiggerPockets Blogs!

by Joshua Dorkin | October 1, 2008

They’re Here! We’ve Launched BiggerPockets Blogs!

In last week’s newsletter, we told you some of the reasons to blog. Now that we’ve officially launched BiggerPockets Blogs, I’d like to share some of the great features of our blogging system, along with some great reasons to get blogging on BiggerPockets.

Some Reasons to Set Up a [...]

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Real Estate Investing For Real Blog Re-Design

by Joshua Dorkin | May 5, 2007

As many of you have probably noticed, this blog has undergone a radical transformation. We’ve redesigned the blog to make it easier for our readers to navigate our content and find their way around.
We hope you like the new design and look forward to bringing you more great content in the future.
Thanks for your [...]

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Blogs

Carnival of Real Estate Investing: Volume 8

by Joshua Dorkin | January 22, 2007

Hi everyone and welcome to Volume 8 of the Carnival of Real Estate Investing. While there are many good submissions this week, only 2 are of any help to real estate investors (I’ve marked them with **). I hope upcoming editions of the carnival have more useful information to help the everyday investor [...]

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Cool Stuff

Monster List of Real Estate Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin | October 3, 2006

Pittsburgh Homes Daily put together a huge list of the 500 real estate blogs to watch. There are some great blogs on the list, most notably yours truly! It must have taken some time to compile . . . nice work!

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Blogs

Under the Investing Carnival Big Top

by Joshua Dorkin | September 26, 2006

The latest edition of the Investing Carnival took place today over at Investing World Today, and featured Real Estate Investing for Real. Our Pinnacle Development Partners Under Investigation article has now been mentioned in 3 blogging carnivals this week.
In addition, with over 11,000 views and over 100 replies, our Pinnacle Discussion forum [...]

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More Blogging Carnivals for Real Estate Investing for Real

by Joshua Dorkin | September 25, 2006

In addition to the Carnival of Real Estate, we were also mentioned today in the HJL Money Blog for the Carnival of Business regarding our post investigating Pinnacle Development Partners.

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Blogs

Using Blogs to Build Your Real Estate Related Business

by Joshua Dorkin | September 14, 2006

Blogs can be very effective communication tools for people in all areas of real estate. Real Estate Agents, Lenders, Investors and other professionals in this field can all benefit from blogging. Here’s a few ways to add to your success by blogging.
First, I wanted to mention a few important keys:
- Focus on [...]

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New York Times Blog “The Walk Through” Shuts Down

by Joshua Dorkin | September 12, 2006

After recently launching two new real estate pages to their site, Great Homes and The Home Finance Center, the New York Times announced yesterday that they would no longer be operating their real estate blog.
Apparently the NY Times couldn’t focus on all three areas of their site at one:
As you may have noticed, [...]

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Blogs

The Housing Bubble Bloggers 2006

by Joshua Dorkin | September 11, 2006

What Happens to All the Real Estate Bubble Bloggers When Housing Prices Level Out?
I know it seems like an obvious question, but maybe not. There are some very popular real estate blogs whose sole purpose is to share news about the housing bubble.
Here is a list of the 12 best housing bubble blogs:

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BiggerPockets Exclusive: Sneak Preview of Real Estate Website Realivent

by Joshua Dorkin | September 11, 2006

I’m not sure how I originally heard about the Realivent site, but there was something tempting about a site that “is looking for beta testers.” A few weeks ago I filled out their tester sign-up form, and on Saturday, was admitted into their Beta program. After filling out a simple registration form, I [...]

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