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Digging into the archives, I found this blog post from only one year ago…
After an absence of 5 days, I enjoyed reading this post from Counter Intelligence that described a situation that I’m sure is familiar to many real estate bloggers: “I’ve got to post a new article today or I’m going to lose readers.” I was surprised to hear that counter Intelligence lost 90% of their daily hits after 50 days of not posting. Contrary to the idea you might get by reading this recent article from National Association of Realtors (NAR), real estate blogging is hard work. Let this serve as a warning to real estate agents who are thinking of diving into blogging. Writing an interesting post on a daily basis is tough stuff. Make sure that you enjoy writing. Make sure that you enjoy keeping up on the news. Real estate blogs like Hot Property have an inherent advantage in that it would be so much easier with multiple bloggers all posting to the same site. Ideally, Rain City Guide will someday get about 5 of 6 different real estate agents who post articles on a regular basis. That way, any one of the agents can take a week off when they get burned out without the site suffering a blackout period.
Posted: August 12th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: advice, agents, blogging, real-estate, retrospecitve
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from Kris
Time August 12, 2006 at 3:23 pm
No kidding! It seems I have days on end where I have to hold posts in draft status so I don’t bury my most recent “good” entry too soon. Then, suddenly, I get too busy (or have a momentary loss of steam), and worry that we will become yesterday’s newspaper. Quite a responsibility, especially when others don’t share your enthusiasm, but what fun! I suspect as blogging becomes more mainstream within the profession, it will be like agents in general: many participants but few, consistent, serious players.
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from Maureen
Time August 13, 2006 at 8:57 am
Months ago in a discussion of blogging on RealTalk, someone who I respect a lot but whom I don’t think understands real estate blogs said : “Anyone care to venture how long it will be before Google starts to penalize blogs as an SEO shortcut? Aren’t easy and bad synonymous in Googledom?”
I had to speak up and say.. really signing up for the blog is the only easy part, blogging is not easy, for me anyway.
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from Eileen Tefft
Time August 20, 2006 at 10:27 am
When I get just a little behind, what I get behind on really is reading all the posts ahead of me. By the time I’ve read them all to make sure that I am relevant, on topic and don’t repeat anyone else’s blog, another week has slipped by!
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from Dustin
Time August 20, 2006 at 11:08 am
Eileen, I’ve definitely been there before… A few weeks ago, I had to clear out my bloglines feeds and start over because I was too far behind in my reading to even catch up! 
1. Comment from greg
Time August 12, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Amen, brother…