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Using a Blog to Get Housing Leads

November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Housing leads can mean leads of buyers, sellers, renters, real estate agents, wholesalers, or others related to the real estate industry. Leads allow you to proceed to the next step as regards taking some real estate related action. The internet is a great place to generate leads and this can be done using a number of different channels or avenues. One such avenue is a blog. Blogs can be a very good way to generate traffic of various sorts, including that resulting in real estate leads, on the internet because they are frequently updated and often generate a fair amount of interest among a wide range of people interested in a specific topic. The following are some tips on using a blog to get housing leads.

Allow Comments

One easy way to get interactivity, and thus leads, going with a blog is simply to allow comments on the blog. This will give a basic sense of who your readers are and allow you to interact with them. You can then both tailor blog posts to your readership more effectively and also market to them or inquire about housing possibilities. This is a basic and organic form of social networking but one which nevertheless works quite well. It gets interactivity, in this case real estate related interactivity, going with the blog and is a good setup for more sophisticated networking methods.

Link the Blog to a Website

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5 Reasons Every Blogger Should Attend a Blog Expo

November 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Every year, thousands of bloggers from all over the world gather for the Blog World Expo. If you are a blogger and haven’t heard of the expo – then, are you sure you are blogging? Every blogger who is any blogger should be attending these blog expos, and for a number of reasons. Need some convincing? Do yourself a favor and read over these five reasons every blogger should attend a blog expo:

Network, network, network. Want to develop relationships with other bloggers you could partner with for some guest blogging and blog linking? Then the expo is full of like-minded people who want to meet YOU The Internet is a global marketplace, and there’s nothing quite like connecting with bloggers on a global level, face to face, in one convenient location.

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Offline Marketing Methods for Blog Success

November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

If you run a blog, then you know how important readership is to the success of your blog. If you monetize your blog, then you rely on your blog’s success for your paycheck. That’s a big deal. Therefore, you owe it to yourself to make sure you are doing everything within your power to market your blog, and that means engaging in offline marketing. How do you market an online entity outside of the world-wide web? Here are some offline marketing methods for blog success:

Your URL. Put your blog’s URL everywhere, and on everything. It should be on your business cards, in the signature line of all your correspondence, on your stationary letterhead, and anything else you can think of that you use to communicate with people outside of the virtual world.

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The Best Blogging Events Around

October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Here at JOAB, we endeavour to give you all the inside gossip and news of the blogging world. One of the ways we are able to keep our finger on the pulse is by communicating with our extensive network of contacts. Often, the best way to meet new people in the industry is to attend conferences and expos, and there are plenty of great blogging conferences out there where you can meet some of the most influential people in the industry. Below are some of the best blogging events out there for interested blog professionals.

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Why We Don’t Worry About Every Scraper

November 30, 2010 By 1 Comment
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In addition to being a writer for Splashpress, including on BloggingPro, Freelance Writing Jobs and now Jack of All Blogs, one of my responsibilities for the company is copyright and plagiarism enforcement. I help monitor where Splashpress Media content is being used and, when appropriate, secure its removal or at the very least its banning from the search engines.

While these are all jobs I do routinely as part of my job as a copyright and plagiarism consultant, I’m happy to say that Splashpress has adopted a practical policy on scrapers that not only allows them to enforce their rights, but prevents them from having to pursue every single case of infringement, regardless of how unimportant.

The company recognizes that, as an organization with over 100 sites and 200 people, that it is impractical, especially on a reasonable budget, to target every single scraper or spammer that wishes to misuse their content, let alone every attributed reuse by a human.

As such, the company carefully targets those that it goes after, using its resources to focus on those who cause the most damage and create the most headache.

While it is a relatively simple process, understanding it requires a basic grasp of how the search engines parse duplicate content and why not every case of infringement is action-worthy. Most importantly, it involves understanding tips that can show any blogger how to use the spammers to their advantage and turn duplicate content into free advertising.

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What Guest Blogging Brings to Splashpress Media

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