Comments on: Creating Your Own Internet Real Estate http://www.particlewave.com/internet-marketing/2007/12/10/creating-your-own-internet-real-estate/ ParticleWave.com - Web development, hosting, and content Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:26:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: John Lockwood http://www.particlewave.com/internet-marketing/2007/12/10/creating-your-own-internet-real-estate/#comment-7429 John Lockwood Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:51:20 +0000 http://www.particlewave.com/internet-marketing/2007/12/10/creating-your-own-internet-real-estate/#comment-7429 Well, on some level I agree with you. Certainly if you have no incoming links, an outside blog or two can't hurt. But in this case we're talking about driving link reputation, not traffic. And I suspect there are definite limits to how much you can play that tune on a single site without the search algorithms devaluing it in a sort of "diminishing returns" fashion. As regards driving traffic, well, OK, but what kind of traffic? Other people hanging around in a social network? Other real estate agents? Don't get me wrong -- I get as caught up in these silly things as the next guy. This morning I spent a couple of hours defending one of my positions on ActiveRain, when the fact is I'm #1 in my market already and ActiveRain doesn't feed my bottom line. A better use of my time would have been to blog about one or two subdivisions locally, then I'd have had a long tail page that 1) would be indexed indefinitely and 2) another node of content on a site with lots of content on it. Well, on some level I agree with you. Certainly if you have no incoming links, an outside blog or two can’t hurt. But in this case we’re talking about driving link reputation, not traffic. And I suspect there are definite limits to how much you can play that tune on a single site without the search algorithms devaluing it in a sort of “diminishing returns” fashion.

As regards driving traffic, well, OK, but what kind of traffic? Other people hanging around in a social network? Other real estate agents?

Don’t get me wrong — I get as caught up in these silly things as the next guy. This morning I spent a couple of hours defending one of my positions on ActiveRain, when the fact is I’m #1 in my market already and ActiveRain doesn’t feed my bottom line. A better use of my time would have been to blog about one or two subdivisions locally, then I’d have had a long tail page that 1) would be indexed indefinitely and 2) another node of content on a site with lots of content on it.

]]> By: Gainesville Realty http://www.particlewave.com/internet-marketing/2007/12/10/creating-your-own-internet-real-estate/#comment-7424 Gainesville Realty Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:18:46 +0000 http://www.particlewave.com/internet-marketing/2007/12/10/creating-your-own-internet-real-estate/#comment-7424 Well what if you use the “user-generated” content sites to drive traffic to yours? It's not always bad to spend time on them, just keep in mind the goal. Well what if you use the “user-generated” content sites to drive traffic to yours? It’s not always bad to spend time on them, just keep in mind the goal.

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