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Blogging Boot Camp - Your Incubator for Blogging Ideas

Each week during our Blogging Boot Camp we share creative blogging ideas, discuss how to implement blogging best practices and offer helpful tips to best use the WordPress blog editor with our real estate agent/broker students. The exchange is fun and the ideas that flow out of our time together are always very interesting. During our recent boot camp call (Thursday-week #7), we shared this idea we thought would benefit the “masses”. Just as a helpful reminder, when blogging, think globally but write locally.

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How you ask? Before I answer that question I have to ask you another question. Do you provide links to “great” websites like your local chamber of commerce, your local newspaper website or maybe the area convention and visitors bureau from your website? I know you were thinking those websites offer all kinds of great area facts and information (and they do). And the main reason you provide those links to these sites is because…….? We both know why. Chances are your site fails to provide any solid area information to your site visitors and you want your site visitors to be able to get to know your area. So is it a bad thing to provide your visitors these “community links” to this “valuable area information”? BTW - this is as close to a rant post as you’re going to read from me. Take heart - it’s a mild rant.

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As some of you may know, Real Estate Webmasters is hosting a Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World contest. It’s a contest to see what agent can dominate the search engines for that keyword. I was aware of the contest but hadn’t really been following it that much until about a week ago. I received a Google Alert that said Kevin Tomlinson and Brad Carroll were the greatest real estate agents in the world. What? It turns out that Blogging Queen ARDELL wrote a post on Rain City Guide declaring us as winners (thanks again!) The point of her post was twofold. One - to test to see how fresh content differs in search engine placement from older authority content; and two, to see show that a team approach is the best way to achieve good SEO.

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The ActiveRain Customizer Project has been extremely successful. However, there are a few people who seem to have had a few problems successfully customizing their blog. With this in mind, I have written a quick FAQs post to hopefully clear up some issues. If you are interested in obtaining free technical support, please read through the questions below. It covers common problems and tells you how to obtain free support. If you are interested in Dakno Marketing assisting you with the design or implementation of your custom ActiveRain blog, please contact us. We will offer this service at our standard rate of $75/hour.

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I recently wrote a post on how to Customize your ActiveRain blog. But my original approach required digging into CSS and HTML. I quickly realized that this could be over the heads of some people in the Active Rain community. So I went back to the drawing board and developed a way for ActiveRain users to easily customize their blog without any knowledge of CSS or HTML. It’s called the ActiveRain Custom Blog Generator. You simply answer a few questions, and hit submit. The Generator does all the hard work for you. Be sure to check it out.

If you haven’t already signed up with ActiveRain, then read this first, then setup your own account.

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Update: I have been contacted by Active Rain asking me to remove my customized AR blog. They discovered a potential flaw where some ActiveRain pages (that show posts from multiple users) could be altered. I have already contacted them with a fix for this. I will be speaking with them today and will keep you updated.

You have probably heard the buzz about the ability to totally customize your Active Rain blog. Visit my recent Active Rain post if you haven’t yet seen an example. It turns out; Active Rain gives you amazing flexibility in the look and feel of your blog. You don’t have to have to be a part of any special beta program. You can do this with any Active Rain blog.

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Ok, so I was getting a little carried away but you’ll soon get the picture (sorry - bad pun). As a Dakno Real Estate Marketing client, you’ve probably heard us mention in the past how your Web site has future proof capabilities. And on many occasions we have “pushed” a few subtle enhancements your way with little fanfare. Well - we have big news for you! We are proud to announce the latest version and enhancement of Agent Backdoor has been released. With this new release, you are provided many new upgrades and new features.

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This much we know, e-commerce spending is growing at an incredible rate and is expected to top $7 trillion this year… yes - I said trillion with a “T”. Recent studies indicate there are numerous reasons why e-commerce sites are so successful. Shoppers list these reasons for using the Internet to shop:

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Blog post should adhere to the following real estate blogging best practices. Why? For several reasons.

Take a look:

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Some people out there may be “on the fence” about becoming a real estate blogger. So let’s cover a few of the basics and determine if you’re up for the blogging challenge.

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