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How The Long Tail and Hyper Local Content Will Punch a Hole Through the Competition

by Ben Roberts | December 16, 2009

Some of you have heard the terms Hyper Local and Long Tail before.  There’s actually a book (The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine) written about niche marketing back in 2006.  I decided to focus on this topic because I don’t think it’s something that is readily understood by many people and [...]

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Real Estate Technology

Why Blogging for Real Estate is Worth the Time

by Christian Russell | November 27, 2009
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In real estate, branding and name recognition is the name of the game. Don’t you agree? Consider this: They need to have heard of you before they will call to list with you. They need to have heard of you before they will call to buy a home with you. They need to have heard [...]

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What Realtors Should Put on Their Blog

by Christian Russell | November 19, 2009
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A good number of Realtors are getting on the ball and putting up a blog. This is smart. It’s a powerful communication tool. It’s a powerful way to build your presence online. However keep a couple important points in mind: It will only serve as a powerful communication tool if you actively use it to [...]

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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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How to Increase Traffic to Your Real Estate Website with Backlinks

by Peter Kolat | September 27, 2009

You’ve probably heard about how having lots of backlinks can give you a huge advantage over your competition on the internet, right?  You’ve probably heard that commenting on blogs, forums and social media sites can give you some really good “Google link juice.”

But do you know how to utilize this strategy effectively?  If not, then you are in for a treat.

In today’s post, I am going to talk about SEO.  Now, I realize that search engine optimization is not for everyone and can be a long, enduring, tedious and hard work.  Yes, I said work.  SEO constantly changes, especially because of our friends over at Google.  They like to keep us on our toes.  Every once in a while, they’ll change their algorithm and if you are not playing the SEO game the right way and doing some blackhat stuff, your site will most likely drop in the rankings.

But that’s a whole other discussion.  Today I want to tell you about a strategy that will help you rank high in Google.  Now, since you are already using the internet, and going to different blogs, forums and social media sites, you should utilize this strategy for your business. Newbies to blogging can learn from these 77 mistakes new bloggers make.

In this post, I am going to focus on blog commenting.  Let’s get right into it.  First, you need to follow couple of common sense rules.

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

by Joshua Dorkin | November 28, 2008

Last week, we announced that we’d start focusing on how people can use technology to help their real estate businesses. I think one of the most important ways for both real estate investors and professionals (Realtors, lenders, etc) to begin to market their businesses is by creating a blog. What Exactly is a Blog? There [...]

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Real Estate Technology

How Technology Can Help Your Real Estate Business

by Joshua Dorkin | November 23, 2008

I’ve realized for some time that the way we all conduct our lives and businesses is dependent on technology. Technology has improved how we accomplish things, but has also proven to be a distraction — think of all of the games we waste time playing on the computer at work or on the phone when [...]

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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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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 out . [...]

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More Honors Bestowed Upon Us During Blogging Award Season

by Joshua Dorkin | January 10, 2007

This has been an interesting past few weeks. I guess the blogging world is pre-empting the entertainment business with its awards season. This blogging award season has been kind to us so far, as I’ve been blessed with some very generous honors that I thought you’d like to hear about. First, as many of you [...]

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Horray for Smart Online Real Estate Marketing: Vote for BiggerPockets!

by Joshua Dorkin | January 4, 2007

Recognize Great Marketing When You See ItWhen someone has a good idea, you have to acknowledge them. As a long-time real estate blogger (that is in relative terms), I’ve seen thousands of blogs pop up throughout the past year. Many have been good, but I did not really take notice, as I currently subscribe to [...]

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2007 Real Estate Goals Writing Project: 12/29 Submissions

by Joshua Dorkin | December 29, 2006

The group writing project goals continue to trickle in, and a few people have thanked me for extending our deadline until January 5, 2007. That said, here are today’s submissions (notice multiple posts from Nick Gifford – he was really detailed with his goals – a MUST READ!) 2007 Goals by Jim Duncan Real Estate [...]

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2007 Real Estate Goals Group Writing Project Update

by Joshua Dorkin | December 26, 2006

We’ve begun to see prize donations for our 2007 Real Estate Goals Group Writing Project. I’ve heard that there are quite a few people interested in the contest, so please start writing your goals so we can start linking to you and your blog! I’d like to thank: Jeff Byer of Print Fellas for donating [...]

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We’re Hosting This Week’s Carnival of Real Estate Investing

by Joshua Dorkin | December 8, 2006

Just in case you haven’t already submitted your articles for this week’s Carnival of Real Estate Investing, please do so by Sunday so I can make my selections for Monday’s New Edition – CoREI #4!

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