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8 Must Have WordPress Plugins for your Real Estate Blog

by Shae Bynes | September 23, 2010

Many real estate entrepreneurs and professionals have started blogs for their businesses over the last few years which is a great way to engage clients and partners, build expertise, market services, and feature properties for sale (for wholesalers and realtors).  One of the most popular platforms for blogs is WordPress and its very powerful thanks [...]

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The Top 20 Real Estate Investing Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin | June 28, 2010

Our now famous list of the top 35 real estate blogs from August 2006 has been seriously withered down over the years; some of the blogs simply died out, while others lost focus, or quality. I thought it was high time that we updated this list by creating several sub-lists of top real estate blogs. The first of these is the current one, a list focused on real estate investing blogs.
The Top Real Estate Investing Blogs

To put this list together, we looked at close to 200 different blogs from both real estate investing-related companies and individual real estate investors. Here are a few things of note about the blogs selected:

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Real Estate Marketing

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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Stop Paying Useless SEO Companies to Promote Your Website!

by Joshua Dorkin | March 25, 2009

Log into the blog . . . check comments . . . remove useless SEO comments . . . A Look at SEO Blog Comments that Will Sink Your Company Getting SPAM comments on your blog is certainly an annoying thing, particularly because of all of the filters on blogs these days, but more annoying, [...]

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real estate blogging

The First Rule of Real Estate Blogging

by Joshua Dorkin | December 4, 2008
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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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Another Carnival of Real Estate

by Joshua Dorkin | August 28, 2006

Once again, the Carnival of Real Estate is here. Our Top 35 Real Estate Blogs post made it into this week’s edition. Check it out at TheLandlordBlog.com

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Top 35 Real Estate Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin | August 25, 2006

Update 6/15/10: We fixed a few links and removed a few blogs from the list as well. It is sad to see more and more of the original top blogs on this list removed, but that is how things go. We never put together an updated top real estate blog list since the original was [...]

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