Quick little idea here. As I was exploring the interwebs today, I realized that REALTOR information is EVERYWHERE. If you change brokers, get married, get a new cell number, how do you keep all these in sync? You could always keep a list of sites that you added your info to. Or you could make sure all inbound links to website can be tagged and tracked, such as www.yoursite.com/index.php?ref=yelp (this one would refer to yelp.com). When you check your logs (you do monitor logs to see where traffic is coming and analyze your ROI right?) you can see which are being used, and make sure those are up to date. If you have plastered yourself from here to Timbuktu this works great, you only maintain the ones that are working for you - the others can lay to rest.
This of course fails miserably if your change your domain name.
Are there any other services that automate identity syndication similar to the listing syndication sites (Point2, etc)?
Ackkkk…before you burn me at the stake - hear me out. This is a continuation of my thoughts inspired by the Clareity Summit.
I think within the first 10 minutes, Gregg said those exact words ‘Blogging is over-rated’ — so if you are still looking for someone to go after once you finish reading this, it was Gregg!! Although I think it was on the tip of everyone’s tongue, he just called it out.
I can’t agree more. There I said it. It’s not that blogging doesn’t have a place, or when used correctly, won’t yield great results — its just that blogging isn’t for everyone, and used incorrectly is just a waste of the author’s time and could prove detrimental to any search engine placement you were trying to achieve.
Let’s whittle it down to where ‘blogging’ came from, ‘web’ + ‘logging’, or in other words an online journal. So blogging is journaling in the public view. Journaling in its raw form has had several studies showing that it can have medical, emotional, inspirational, academic, stress reducing, etc benefits. Yet not everyone does it.
But wait, with so many positive reasons, why doesn’t everyone do it? Simply, because it is not for everyone and when used incorrectly could amplify negative issues. Bingo - lightbulb - viola!! The same goes for blogging.
So how do I determine if blogging is for me and that I can create a valuable resource?
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