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  • • Saturday Fun: My YouTube Video Dedication Wall 
      So, for my Saturday fun post, here are a few of my favorite videos dedicated to a few of my favorite peeps.
      
      
    • Calling all Florida Real Estate Bloggers - Dave Snyder 's SEO Conference: Register Now, It's Cheap and It Will Be AWESOME! 
      Scary SEO is a mini-conference at the end of October that is focused on education, networking, and fun.
      
      
    • Confessions of A Real Estate Agent 
      Lessons and Confessions of a Real Estate Agent
      
      
    • RSS Pieces Will Remain Dark Today, June 18, 2008, to Mourn Our Friend, Bear 
      RSS Pieces Will Remain Dark Today to Mourn Our Friend, Bear For those of you that do not know, a dear friend and part of the RSS Pieces family unexpectedly passed away this past weekend.
      
      
    • 2 Big Blogs Launch: Russell Shaw and 1parkplace 
      We are welcoming the blogs for 1parkplace and Russell Shaw and announcing the approval of 1parkplace for offering it's IDX search and lead generation solution to the ARMLS.
      
      
    • Online Shock and Awe Campaign - 10 Online Marketing Secrets for Cyberstars 
      Become a keyboard warrior. If you want to win the online war against Trulia, Zillow and Yahoo, you need to know the 10 secrets that will put and keep your website or blog on top of the engines and generating leads.
      
      
    • Link lovin' on the Trulia Video of RETech South 
      Rudy, the Trulia Guru (yeah, it actually says Guru on his business card - that is too cool) was such a doll at RETech South that he shot some great candid video of speakers and hosts behind the scenes.
      
      
    • RETech South Was a Huge Success 
      For those of you that were not at RETech South in Atlanta, GA, you missed out. Almost unbelievably Brad Nix and Matt Fagioli put together a full technology conference covering blogging, SEO, social networking, widgets, video and IDX services in less than a month.
      
      
    • Happy Easter 
      Happy Easter
      
      
    • RSS Pieces Events and Webinar Calendar 
      RSS Pieces Events and Webinar Calendar
      
      
    • Mary McKnight Calls Greg Swann "Nicole Richie", seriously, I did that! 
      Humans are emotional junkies and the more outrageous you are the more people will flock to you. Why? Because engaging is sometimes enraging! People love to be happy, mad, sad.
      
      
    • WebEx Malfunction: re-do tomorrow at 2PM 
      Ouch... WebEx went wonky and wouldn't let us in... So, I have rescheduled for tomorrow, same time, 2PM EST.
      
      
    • Week of Jan 28: Blog and SEO Webinar Training Schedule 
      Week of Jan 28: Blog and SEO Webinar Training Schedule :: Social Networking and SEO Mistakes
      
      
    • Real Estate Blogs by RSS Pieces 
      Buy a real estate blog thta generates leads today
      
      
    • RSS Pieces wishes you a Merry Christmas 
      All of us at RSS Pieces wish you a merry Christmas filled with joy and laughter
      
      
    • Happy Halloween from the RSS Pieces Team 
      Halloween also known as All Hollows Eve is a time for costumes, candy, Jack-O-Lanterns, bon fires, parties, and much more.
      
      
    • God Bless Our Friends in Southern California 
      Our thoughts and prayers are with all the real estate bloggers, friends and families we have in the Southern California area.
      
      
    • The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed 
      The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed
      
      
    • RSS Pieces Appoints Scott Lockhart as New President  
      RSS Pieces, a provider of top-rated real estate blogging products, today announced it has appointed Scott Lockhart to the position of President, effective September 1, 2007.
      
      
    • RealTyger: the other other real estate desktop and social network 
      RealTyger, first and foremost, is a cache of online real estate tools designed to completely manage your online presence from SEO and listings to lead generation and drip campaigns.
      
      
    • Happy Fourth of July! 
      Happy Fourth of July!
      
      
    • Are you Looking Down the Long End of a Cybersquatting Law Suit? 
      Ever buy a competitors domain or one extremely similar to it or even a misspelled version, then redirect that site to your own? If so, you very well may be looking at a law suit.
      
      
    • Sunday Fun: American Idol Sweetheart, Baby V, Takes on RSS Pieces 
      Up to this point, weve never really felt the need to "out" our higher profile clients publically on this blog. However, that all changed when Melodic Records walked through our door with none other than Baby V (AKA Vonzell Solomon) of American Idol, Season 4.
      
      
    • For Immediate Release - Mary McKnight to Speak at Inman News Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007 
      For Immediate Release - Mary McKnight to Speak at Inman News Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2007
      
      
    • Carnival of Real Estate: Real Estate Blog Pageant 
      This ain't no pattin' Realtors on the back Carnival, this is the real deal. Because of the overwhelming number of real estate blog submissions we received and the fact we wanted to make this a real pagent with only a handful of deserving winners, our panel of judges battled it out to come up with one overall winner and only 5 runners up.
      
      
    • Things Losers Say: AdSense and Affiliate Programs Don't Work 
      There's no reason that your real estate blog has to be a drain on your finances or time. Truth be told, monetizing your blog is a good idea. It will boost your income when times are good and carry you when the real estate market lulls.
      
      
    • WHAT WE'VE been up to 
      Today marks the roll out of our new and improved look along with a solid committment to fresh, relevant and controversial real estate content.
      
      
    • New features 
      New features in our blogging platform
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 4 
      Part 4 in this compendium of real estate blog ideas is chock full of ideas that are designed to spark participation and engage readers emotionally like taxes, politics and blog wars.
      
      
    • Real E Space: T Minus 7 
      Just in case you missed the subtle announcement on our the X Broker's blog, Real E Space is counting down the days until their Founders Banquet on April 3rd in Dallas
      
      
    • Inman Bloggers Conference 
      Just in case you somehow missed the announcement on Inman or RainCity, get ready for a blogging industry event on March 5th.
      
      
    • Drive local traffic with reviews and interviews 
      If there is one thing you can count on to spark a localized viral or word of mouth campaign for your real estate blog it is an interview or a review of a local business.
      
      
    • Guide to a successful real estate blog launch 
      I've been providing this quick checklist to our clients for months now, but why keep it under wraps, there are plenty of other bloggers that could benefit from it!
      
      
    • Is your blog sleeping with the fishes? 
      Needless to say, it
      
      
    • Shhh, is your blog full of  
      Like American Idol judge, Simon Cowell would say,
      
      
    • Feed your real estate blog to the dogs 
      One of the best pieces of advice I can give you about your real estate blog is that it doesn
      
      
    • RSS Pieces announces Blog Swap 
      The December 19th 2006 event will bring together 28 of the most influential real estate bloggers for the Internet equivalent of a Yankee Swap.
      
      
    • Redfin enters blog swap! 
      Calling out to all real estate bloggers, Redfin has entered RSS Pieces Yankee Blog Swap and we are looking for a worthy adversary for the big R.
      
      
    • RSS Pieces welcomes Jack Slocum 
      RSS Pieces is proud to announce that Jack is now an official part of our core development team.
      
      
    • RSS Pieces wishes you Happy Thanksgiving 
      Happy Thanksgiving from RSS Pieces
      
      
    • CONTEST: funniest real estate story 
      Most of us have that one boss or co-worker that pops to mind when you hear the term
      
      
    • 10-23-06 Carnival of Real Estate 
      Check us out baby, we are featured on Carnival of Real Estate
      
      
    • LOOK WHO'S TALKING about myRealtyBlog 
      See what other Real Estate and Technology blogs, websites and news portals are saying about myRealtyBlog
      
      
    • MYREALTYBLOG launches 
      RSS Pieces announces launch of myRealtyBlog
      
      
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  • • Privacy Policy 
      RSS Pieces is the sole owner of the information collected on the RSS Pieces web site.
      
      
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      RSS Pieces Terms of Service and copyright information.
      
      
  • Portfolio
  • • Real Estate Blog Portfolio 
      An RSS Pieces blog doesnt have to look like a run of the mill blog. An RSS Pieces blog can look and function like a conventional website but have the advantages of a blog and also the sparkle of a multimedia website.
      
      
    • Portfolio 
      RSS Pieces Clients, Portfolio, Blog Samples
      
      
    • FEATURED clients 
      featured client list
      
      
  • Services
  • • Generate More Real Estate Leads from your Blog with RSS Pieces Custom Form Builder 
      Start generating more real estate leads with completely customizable data collection with a custom form builder.
      
      
    • Real Estate Blogs by RSS Pieces 
      Buy a real estate blog thta generates leads today
      
      
    • BLOG services & pricing 
      blogsite service level descriptions & pricing
      
      
    • Impending Release of New functionality 
      New features in the next release of the RSS Pieces blogging platform
      
      
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  • • RSS Pieces Blog Services Agreement 
      Company agrees to create, service, and provide all labor and furnish all parts necessary to maintain the RSS Pieces Blogsite Services as described in RSS Pieces Blogsite Services Agreement
      
      
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  • Testimonials
  • • Colleen Kulikowski, Buffalo NY Blogger 
      Your advice works! Within a day of putting this button on my BLOG - I got my first lead directly from it... 4 CMA requests and 2 Best Property Requests within 1 day
      
      
    • Derek & Mariana Wagner : Wagner iTeam 
      We looked into a custom blog platform for over a year. We wanted to make sure that we chose a company who not only knew what they were doing design-wise, but also knew SEO and were trustworthy. Our logical selection was RSS Pieces.
      
      
    • Irina Netchev: Pasadena Real Estate Blog 
      I just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with the design and functionality of the new blog that your team has created for me
      
      
    • LOOK WHO'S TALKING about myRealtyBlog 
      See what other Real Estate and Technology blogs, websites and news portals are saying about myRealtyBlog
      
      
    • BESTCAPEcoralrealty.com 
      My RSS Pieces blogsite makes me competitive.
      
      
• Blog Marketing
  • Online Advertising
  • • Things Losers Say: AdSense and Affiliate Programs Don't Work 
      There's no reason that your real estate blog has to be a drain on your finances or time. Truth be told, monetizing your blog is a good idea. It will boost your income when times are good and carry you when the real estate market lulls.
      
      
    • The lazy man's guide to real estate blogging 
      So, we seek out the tips, tricks and shortcuts that make things like blogging easier. These are a few ideas for the
      
      
    • Using Social Bookmarks to Promote Your Blog 
      Learn how to use social bookmarks and social news sites to promote your blog.
      
      
    • BACKLINK STRATEGY for realtors 
      The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website
      
      
    • REALTORS and web marketing 
      Real Estate Agents are moving more of their advertising budgets into Web Marketing.
      
      
    • HOW TO MAKE MONEY on a blog 
      How to make money on your blog with affiliate programs and Google Adsense.
      
      
    • BOOST ADWORD revenues with content 
      Targeting your content to your specific audience of site visitors will result in solid Ad Word revenues.
      
      
  • Podcast Marketing
  • • Real Estate Radio Shows Featuring 1ParkPlace and BrokerIPTV 
      I had the pleasure to meet the Barrys on Saturday at one of their Realtor seminars at Miami University.
      
      
    • 2008 New Year's Resolutions for our Realtor Blog 
      What are your blogging New Year's resolutions?
      
      
    • Ultimate guide to real estate blog copyrighting 
      When is comes to online copyrights, I see a lot of real estate bloggers breaking the law by using copyrighted images and sometimes flat out plagiarizing content.
      
      
    • Almost Famous: how to create viral video 
      Think you have the cajones to add YouTube to your advertising arsenal? Find out if you can stomach what it takes to be a viral video vixen, with this 5 step program.
      
      
    • How to embed YouTube Videos in your blog 
      YouTube is hot and it has tons of local videos that could punch up your blog posts.
      
      
    • PODCAST: RETS2 and you 
      RETS is a behind the scenes technology your IDX or web company uses to import MLS data. RETS helps keep the data uniform as MLS information varies substantially between providers.
      
      
    • PODCAST: Damion Flynn, MS Realtor 
      Meet Damion Flynn, Realtor by day, technical guru by night.
      
      
    • PODCAST: Hearing Real Estate Voices 
      Meet the man behind Real Estate Voices, a news aggregator for the real estate industry.
      
      
    • ULTIMATE GUIDE to podcasting, Part 2 
      You can start your own high-quality Podcast show today by investing as little as $60 and 30 minutes of your time.
      
      
    • ActiveRain Talks Social Networking 
      Want a behind the scenes look at Active Rain? Check out REBlogGirl's interview with Matt Heatton.
      
      
    • HOT STUFF: Sellsius 
      Hey all, this is my interview with Real Estate Technobitionists, Sellsius
      
      
    • REAL ESTATE podcasting, part 1 
      Learn the basics of Podcasting, why real estate agents should be doing it, how to implement a podcast and what options are available to you for recording and publishing.
      
      
    • PODCASTING benefits 
      Podcasting is becoming a unique medium for businesses of every size to reach employees, investors, prospects and customers.
      
      
    • PODCAST marketing 
      Podcasting is becoming a unique medium for businesses of every size to reach employees, investors, prospects and customers.
      
      
  • RSS Marketing
  • • Are RSS feeds killing your website? 
      If you decide to use RSS feeds to build site content automatically you must have a solid strategy.
      
      
    • Why Realtors Should Use RSS 
      This would also mean that if you are using a blog like myrealtyblog that can display MLS/IDX data, a user could subscribe to a feed that would deliver new home listings that met their search criteria to their feed reader daily.
      
      
    • Integrating an RSS Feed Part 2 
      This is part two of the integrating RSS feeds article and includes a WordPress plugin.
      
      
    • Integrating external feeds: Part 1 
      In this first article we will show you how to implement a basic RSS feed using SimplePie. We have chosen SimplePie because its implementation of feed reading is reasonably complete
      
      
    • MYTH: RSS feeds are SEO poison 
      RSS feeds CAN add value to a website from an SEO standpoint.
      
      
    • WHY REALTORS should use rss 
      Cold hard fact is, if you aren
      
      
    • DRIVING TRAFFIC with the Zillow API 
      Not only does Zillow over-value my home, according to Zillow we live in the middle of a canal! So, whats the big fuss over the Zillow API and how can it benefit your website?
      
      
    • RSS marketing 
      RSS allows you, to easily deliver your content to your target audience.
      
      
• Calendar
• Interviews
• • Mary and Laurie Kick Off Real Estate Radio's First Real Estate Blogging Thursday 
    Laurie Manny of the Long Beach Real Estate Blog and myself helped the Barries to kick off their Real Estate Blogging Thursday over at Real Estate Radio yesterday.
    
    
  • BLOGGER OF THE MONTH: MARIANA WAGNER, COLORADO SPRINGS REAL ESTATE 
    Colorado Real Estate Blogger of the Month, Mariana Wagner Interview
    
    
  • HOT STUFF: Sellsius 
    Hey all, this is my interview with Real Estate Technobitionists, Sellsius
    
    
• Online Training Seminars
• • Calling all Florida Real Estate Bloggers - Dave Snyder 's SEO Conference: Register Now, It's Cheap and It Will Be AWESOME! 
    Scary SEO is a mini-conference at the end of October that is focused on education, networking, and fun.
    
    
  • Exclusive CyberStars Webinar: Online Shock and Awe Campaign 
    10 Online Marketing Secrets for Cyberstars That Want to Kick Butt and Take Names on Google
    
    
  • June 16: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule 
    June 16: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule
    
    
  • June 9: Real Estate blog Training Schedule 
    June 9th real estate blogging, seo and lead generation training schedule. Trainings are open to all Realtors and Mortgage Brokers for free.
    
    
  • June 2: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule 
    Real estate blog, seo and lead generation training. Register to attend one of our free daily webinars today.
    
    
  • Week of April 21: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule 
    Week of April 21: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule
    
    
  • Week of April 14: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule 
    Week of April 14: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule
    
    
  • Week of March 17: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule 
    Learn how to optimize your real estate blog for better placement in Google.
    
    
  • Week of March 10: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule 
    Week of March 10: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule
    
    
  • Week of March 3: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule 
    Week of March 3: Real Estate Blog Training Schedule
    
    
  • Week of February 25: Real Estate Blog Online Training Schedule 
    Week of February 25,: Real Estate Blog Online Training Schedule
    
    
  • Week of Feb 18: Real Estate Blog Online Training Schedule 
    Week of Feb 18: Real Estate Blog Online Training Schedule
    
    
  • Week of Feb 11: Real Estate Blog Online Training Schedule 
    Week of Feb 11: Real Estate Blog Online Training Schedule
    
    
  • Week of Feb 4: Real Estate Blog and SEO Webinar Training Schedule 
    Real estate blogging and seo training schedule
    
    
  • WebEx Malfunction: re-do tomorrow at 2PM 
    Ouch... WebEx went wonky and wouldn't let us in... So, I have rescheduled for tomorrow, same time, 2PM EST.
    
    
  • Week of Jan 28: Blog and SEO Webinar Training Schedule 
    Week of Jan 28: Blog and SEO Webinar Training Schedule :: Social Networking and SEO Mistakes
    
    
  • PageRank 5 Club Weekly Tip: Submit to high PageRank Directories 
    In the grand scheme of link building, you need to focus your time on building high quality, high PageRank backlinks.
    
    
  • Week of Jan 14, 2008: SEO and Blogging Webinar Schedule 
    Want to Learn More About Blogging and SEO? Join me for our weekly WebEx seminars.
    
    
• Realtor Web Marketing
  • 365 Real Estate Blog Ideas
  • • Top 5 Easy and Effective Listing Posts You Can Write for Your Real Estate Blog 
      Hey, real estate agents should be too busy to blog. It's a fact. So, sometimes you need quick, easy and effective posts that take minimal time and brain power. So, here are examples of simple posts that will quickly become cornerstone pieces on your blog.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Idea's, 22 
      Part 22 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­how to attack the foreclosure topic to how to target specific prospect markets witquickie glossary posts.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 21 
      Part 21 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­gearing some of your writing to college students, thanksgiving, and writing more details about your neighborhoods.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 20 
      Part 20 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­covering National issues such as cancer, to the obvious for the month of October, HALLOWEEN.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 19 
      Part 19 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­the awesome gadgets you have lying around to planning a party for the new neighbors.
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 18 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 18
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 17 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 17
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 16 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 16
      
      
    • A Years Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas 
      Ever get writers block when trying to come up with hot topics for your real estate blog? Well, you're not alone, so here is the complete list (so far) of blogging topics for real estate.
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 14 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 14
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 13 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 13
      
      
    • TRAFFIC DRIVING content 
      The quality of the traffic you generate is just as important as the quantity when it comes to using Google AdSense.
      
      
  • Blog Glossary
  • • Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Permalinks 
      Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Permalinks
      
      
  • Real Estate Blogs
  • • Blogging and SEO 101 - Getting Started 
      Blogging and SEO 101 - Getting Started
      
      
    • Comment Smart: 5 simple rules to commenting for backlinks to increase PageRank and SERP 
      The key is to commenting smart and effectively, so you get the best bang for the time you spend doing it.
      
      
    • Exclusive Pre-Launch Offer: RSS Pieces Introduces Semi-Custom Template Real Estate Blogs 
      These high impact real estate blog templates come in a variety of colors can be live in as little as 1 hour form the time we receive your full order and assets and offer you the greatest level of flexibility.
      
      
    • Write a post supporting your fellow real estate blogger, Vlad Zablotskyy, in his battle with ePerks and I will give you a blog 
      The more I learn about this whole sodid tale, the less I like it. So, here: let's show ePerks what the blogosphere can really do. If you care or if you just want a blog, write a post in support of Vlad
      
      
    • ePerks Sues Real Estate Blogger, Blogosphere Unites to Destroy the ePerks Brand 
      So, here is a beautiful little story about a company, ePerks, that didn't quite like what one blogger did, so they attacked him personally all over the Internet and then sued him when he started talking about it.
      
      
    • Top 5 Easy and Effective Listing Posts You Can Write for Your Real Estate Blog 
      Hey, real estate agents should be too busy to blog. It's a fact. So, sometimes you need quick, easy and effective posts that take minimal time and brain power. So, here are examples of simple posts that will quickly become cornerstone pieces on your blog.
      
      
    • Real Estate Site Landing Page Optimization: how to get your visitors to contact you 
      Landing Page Optimization is an essential component of good web design. It is the process of improving a visitor's perception of a website by optimizing its content and appearance in order to make the pages more appealing to the target audiences
      
      
    • Get more real estate leads with killer call to actions on your blog and website 
      By carefully crafting your call to action buttons you can generate more real estate leads from your website or blog now.
      
      
    • How to make neighborhood maps for your real estate blog 
      A tutorial on how to create high quality neighborhood maps for real estate blogs
      
      
    • 5 tools that will make your real estate blog posts better 
      We all like things that make making posts easier and giving them a little more life. SO, here are my top 5 pics on how you can spice up your blog posts quickly, easily and without much tech savvy.
      
      
    • How to determine how much search traffic your real estate blog should get from any key term 
      How to determine how much search engine traffic you will get from any given keyword to your real estate blog
      
      
    • Real Estate Blogger of the Month | Dayton OH Realtor | Mark Ryan 
      Blogger of the Month, Dayton Ohio real estate agent, Mark Ryan
      
      
    • Social Networking Tool of the Month: Social Poster 
      Got a real estate blog post that rocks the Kasbah and you want to post it to all the top social networks and news aggregators? Then you need to check out Social Poster .
      
      
    • HomeGain Introduces Real Estate Agent Blogs, Max Goes Ape 
      Real Estate Leads company, HomeGain, introduces the HomeGain Agent Blogs while company front man, Maxs life is spinning out of control.
      
      
    • Should you use a ghost blogger to help build content for your real estate blog? 
      Have you ever considered that your time might be better spent actually interfacing with buyers and sellers or writing offers and contracts than writing on your blog?
      
      
    • How to use demographics to craft real estate blog posts that target your readers 
      Understand the differences in home buyers/sellers from a demographics and psychographics standpoint and how you can use that data to craft real estate blog posts that resonate with various generations.
      
      
    • How to start a real estate blog 
      Leading blog provider, RSS Pieces put together this 44 page document on how to start a real estate blog.
      
      
    • Real Estate Blogger of the Month | Lake Norman Realtor | Diane Aurit 
      Real Estate Blogger of the Month: Lake Norman Realtor: Diane Aurit
      
      
    • 10 Worst Fortune 500 Blogs 
      OK, you know I wouldn't have put up the 10 best Fortune 500 blogs if I wasn't willing to put up the 10 worst. And let me tell you, the following blogs need to turn off the lights and say
      
      
    • Real Estate blogs are stores, not newspapers - so blog like you are selling houses, not writing for your local paper 
      The entire point of this post is to get you to understand that if your business is about real estate and you want to attract customers that have a real estate need you MUST write about real estate not skateboards and restaurants.
      
      
    • 1 Month of blog topics: Ultimate guide to building real estate blog content that gets results 
      The first month of your real estate blog's life is actually the most important. So, I thought I would put together a fail safe way to construct content that is hyper local, rich in information and will form the foundation of a successful blog.
      
      
    • Spider Posts: How to write efficiently on your real estate blog: make one blog post last for a week 
      Writing a real estate blog should not become your full time job, it is simply one tool among many you should use to build and grow your business. In order to be a successful Realtor, you need to use each of your marketing and lead generation tools effectively and efficiently.
      
      
    • Driving qualified traffic to your site through the search engines will increase your traffic to lead conversion ratio 
      You are a Realtor. So, you need to write highly focused real estate content if you want to be found through the search engines for terms related to real estate.
      
      
    • Generate 100+ More Quality Real Estate Leads per Month by Feeding Your Blog RSS Feeds from the MLS 
      On the flip side of that, a Realtor that blogs daily, Greg Neuman is generating 100+ more real estate leads per month just from just his RSS feeds.
      
      
    • Confessions of a Real Estate Blog Link Whore: Trackback Spam Hurts 
      trackbacks, spam
      
      
    • Mary McKnight Calls Greg Swann "Nicole Richie", seriously, I did that! 
      Humans are emotional junkies and the more outrageous you are the more people will flock to you. Why? Because engaging is sometimes enraging! People love to be happy, mad, sad.
      
      
    • What can Britney Spears teach you about writing a great real estate blog post? 
      Writing headlines is what blogging is all about. The number one rule of copywriting is: every single sentence is designed to make you read the next one. So, if you can engage the reader in your headline, they will be more likely to read that first sentence of your blog post.
      
      
    • Being consistent on your real estate blog is only a virtue if you're not a screw up: how to be consistant and successful 
      Consistancy is the name of the game when it comes to real estate blogging, you need to be consistant in your topic, keywords, posting frequency and article formats.
      
      
    • Top 5 reasons why I hate chiclets on your real estate blog 
      Even the best of bloggers succumb to the occasional chicklet or two, but 10, 20 little icons in your sidebar or footer, it's a little excessive, don't you think?
      
      
    • Top 6 Widgets for a Real Estate Blog 
      Top 6 Widgets for a Real Estate Blog
      
      
    • Week of Jan 21, 2008: SEO and Blogging Webinar Schedule 
      Join me for a 30 minute webinar to learn how you can achieve the kind of success clients like Laurie Manny, Ines Garcia, Marc Blasi and Brian Brady have by reaching page 1 of Google for short tail keywords in less than 4 months.
      
      
    • Goal setting for bloggers: how to build a popular real estate blog  
      You must set goals and track your progress in order to reach your blogging potential.
      
      
    • 45% of all blogs sleep with the fishes within 3 months: how to keep yours alive and kicking 
      Blogs are like the Cosa Nostra of websites. They are connected to one another, bribe their way up the search engine results and peddle their wares to readers...
      
      
    • 2008 New Year's Resolutions for our Realtor Blog 
      What are your blogging New Year's resolutions?
      
      
    • RSS Pieces wishes you a Merry Christmas 
      All of us at RSS Pieces wish you a merry Christmas filled with joy and laughter
      
      
    • How to write a killer real estate blog about page 
      Your About Page should be written in a warm and inviting tone that reads easily and is full of information about you, your passion for real estate, your accomplishments in the field and experience with buyers and sellers.
      
      
    • Blogging to your own drummer will hurt you: the curse of improvisational real estate blogging 
      There is a formula to successful business blogging, but so often I see Realtors straying from it and basically, blogging to their own drummer with highly personal rants and cutesy posts.
      
      
    • Happy Halloween from the RSS Pieces Team 
      Halloween also known as All Hollows Eve is a time for costumes, candy, Jack-O-Lanterns, bon fires, parties, and much more.
      
      
    • Google Slaps Real Estate Blogs in Latest PageRank Update 
      Google Slaps Real Estate Blogs in Latest PageRank Update
      
      
    • How to get your real estate blog noticed: why being bold is key to traffic and loyal readership 
      You MUST be bold, brazen, controversial, insightful, funny and most importantly, USEFUL to build loyal traffic for your real estate blog.
      
      
    • The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed 
      The RSS Pieces Real Estate Blog Creed
      
      
    • Social Bookmarking to be or not to be 
      Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to submit their favorite websites/posts to a public web site.
      
      
    • Sellsius Announces 2007 Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers 
      We would like to congratulate Ines Hegedus-Garcia of Miamism and Laurie Manny of Long Beach Real Estate Home on being named by Sellsius as part of the Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers!
      
      
    • Real Estate Blog SEO Tip of the Week: Sitemaps 
      A sitemap is a complete resource guide for readers and search engines including a list and description of each page on a site.
      
      
    • Why Should the Realtors BLOG?  
      On Friday I attended BLOGORLANDO and inspired I learned so much. One important thing I learned was that my instincts about Blogging and Real Estate are right on track.
      
      
    • How to Dress Your Real Estate Blog for Success! 
      Real Estate Professionals often find building their Real Estate BLOG as an overwhelming process; there are so many posts to be written, where does one start?
      
      
    • Generate leads from testimonials on your real estate blog in 5 simple steps 
      Any good Realtor knows that word of mouth marketing through testimonials is by far the best, easiest and cheapest way to grow your business.
      
      
    • The Ten Commandments of Blogging and Commenting 
      The Ten Commandments of Blogging and Commenting
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 18 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 18
      
      
    • Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Trackbacks 
      Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Trackbacks
      
      
    • How to generate leads from your real estate blog: we have proof 
      Ever wonder how you generate leads from your real estate blog or your website for that matter?
      
      
    • How to Write Flagship Content for Your Real Estate Blog 
      Flagship/Cornerstone content should actually make a readers life better, richer, easier, faster... Something that they search for in Google to find you by or something that directly benefits them.
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 17 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 17
      
      
    • Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Backlinks 
      Real Estate Blog Term of the Week - Backlinks
      
      
    • Chillin With Joe, Rudy and the Blog Tour RV 
      Chillin With Joe, Rudy and the Blog Tour RV
      
      
    • Is Writing Quality Real Estate Blog Content Like Pulling Teeth? 
      Quality content for the real estate consumer or potential consumer is more about providing them with useful, entertaining and relevant information than penning post after post of market reports.
      
      
    • Increase Daily Traffic to YOUR Real Estate Blog 
      Often I get the question from clients
      
      
    • Is the Blogroll on Your Real Estate Blog Damaging Your Street Cred? 
      Is the Blogroll on Your Real Estate Blog Damaging Your Street Cred?
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 15 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 15
      
      
    • Starting a Controversy on Your Real Estate Blog to Drive Traffic 
      Starting a Controversy on Your Real Estate Blog to Drive Traffic
      
      
    • Duplicate Content Filters Explained: Why Your Personal Blog and ActiveRain Blog Can Have Duplicate Content 
      One of the most misunderstood concepts in the real estate blogosphere and SEO is what duplicate content filters are and how they affect your real estate blog or website.
      
      
    • The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part III 
      The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part III
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 12 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 12
      
      
    • The Weekly Whiskey Tango Foxtrot of Blogs - Scout Hates You 
      The Weekly Whiskey Tango Foxtrot of Blogs - Scout Hates You
      
      
    • Who Are You? A Glimpse into the Many Personalities of Real Estate Bloggers 
      Who Are You? A Glimpse into the Many Personalities of Real Estate Bloggers
      
      
    • You Can't Un-Steal a Car: Copyright Infringement in the Real Estate Blogosphere 
      RSS Pieces intends to prosecute Copyright Theft to the fullest extent that the law will allow, both in Criminal and Civil courts.
      
      
    • Live Real Estate Blog Assistance with MEEbo 
      Ever needed that extra bit of training on your real estate blog?
      
      
    • A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 11 
      A years worth of real estate blog ideas, 11
      
      
    • The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part II 
      The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part II
      
      
    • What do Technoratis Top 100 Blogs Have in Common? And what can a real estate blog learn from them? 
      You'll be suprised at some of the things you'll learn, like having a white background may be necessity for success, font selection does matter and 79% of the top 100 blogs out there monetize themselves.
      
      
    • The Most Common (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors on Real Estate Blogs, Part I 
      The Most Commom (and Irritating) Grammatical Errors
      
      
    • A year's worth of real estate blog ideas, 10 
      A year's worth of real estate blog ideas, 10
      
      
    • A year's worth of real estate blog ideas, 9 
      A year's worth of real estate blog ideas, 9
      
      
    • How to Increase RSS Subscribers on your Real Estate Blog 
      Hi my name is Jessica M. a.k.a Blog Diva!
      
      
    • Carnival of Real Estate: Real Estate Blog Pageant 
      This ain't no pattin' Realtors on the back Carnival, this is the real deal. Because of the overwhelming number of real estate blog submissions we received and the fact we wanted to make this a real pagent with only a handful of deserving winners, our panel of judges battled it out to come up with one overall winner and only 5 runners up.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 8 
      Part 8 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from link building with ultimate guide posts to creating your own glossary of terms for the industry.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 7 
      Part 7 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from increasing participation on your blog to taking readers on a trip to a local attraction like a Zoo or a Museum.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 6 
      See how Realtors across the real estate blogosphere are giving content a unique spin with these 10 real estate blog ideas.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 5 
      Part 5 in this list of real estate blog ideas covers everything from homeowners insurance and natural disasters to blogging listings and local business news.
      
      
    • Google drops blogs. Are you a victim? 
      As many of you may know by now, any blog under a Page Rank 6 was dropped from Google's primary index.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 4 
      Part 4 in this compendium of real estate blog ideas is chock full of ideas that are designed to spark participation and engage readers emotionally like taxes, politics and blog wars.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 3 
      Part 3 in this month long series covers real estate blog ideas from establishing yourself as a local expert to building authority as a problem solver.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, 2 
      Part 2 in this huge series covers real estate blog ideas from humor to fear, myth busting to secret telling.
      
      
    • A Year's Worth of Real Estate Blog Ideas, I 
      A years worth of blogging ideas for real estate: 364¼ topics for real estate bloggers to plunder with plenty of great examples from Realtors that have already had success with the ideas.
      
      
    • Real E Space: T Minus 7 
      Just in case you missed the subtle announcement on our the X Broker's blog, Real E Space is counting down the days until their Founders Banquet on April 3rd in Dallas
      
      
    • Ultimate guide to real estate blog copyrighting 
      When is comes to online copyrights, I see a lot of real estate bloggers breaking the law by using copyrighted images and sometimes flat out plagiarizing content.
      
      
    • Is your SEO charging you too much? 
      Find out how to SEO your real estate blog or website on a shoestring budget.
      
      
    • How to get banned by Google 
      How to get banned by Google
      
      
    • Almost Famous: how to create viral video 
      Think you have the cajones to add YouTube to your advertising arsenal? Find out if you can stomach what it takes to be a viral video vixen, with this 5 step program.
      
      
    • How to embed YouTube Videos in your blog 
      YouTube is hot and it has tons of local videos that could punch up your blog posts.
      
      
    • Drive local traffic with reviews and interviews 
      If there is one thing you can count on to spark a localized viral or word of mouth campaign for your real estate blog it is an interview or a review of a local business.
      
      
    • Re-inventing the real estate blog with listings 
      Dont let your blog get bloated with tools that simply wont work to build your business. It is just as easy to embed quality, real estate tools directly into your blog as it is to install a plugin that has little to no business value.
      
      
    • Guide to a successful real estate blog launch 
      I've been providing this quick checklist to our clients for months now, but why keep it under wraps, there are plenty of other bloggers that could benefit from it!
      
      
    • Out of the Box Spam Hits MyBlogLog 
      Just like every other social network, MyBlogLog is not immune to its fair share of spam. Why, just this morning, I had an invitation to co-author another blog from MyBlogLog
      
      
    • Canonicalization: getting it right 
      Now that you have a basic understanding of canonicalization let
      
      
    • HTML Validation: the hidden key to SEO 
      How many of you have ever made a typo in a post or posted some bad grammar or a spelling mistake? Well, developers do the same thing.
      
      
    • What seperates a blog from a website? 
      There are four primary things a blog does inherently that a website simply won't
      
      
    • Using Celebrity to Drive Traffic to Your Blog 
      Celebreality sells. The juicy details of the most tragic lives are what we gobble up with our less than silver spoons. So, use it.
      
      
    • The search for Jim Gray 
      Jim Gray is missing and of all companies Amazon is the one taking the lead.
      
      
    • Is your blog sleeping with the fishes? 
      Needless to say, it
      
      
    • Link Bait Idea: Crazy Laws in America 
      Hey, there are days when you don
      
      
    • Canonicalization: is it killing your website? 
      Canonicalization is a file methodology that exposes a flaw in the modern search engine and the way it indexes websites.
      
      
    • Long tail, short tail and coat tail searches 
      Long tail refers to a very specific set of searches that have statistical relevance to your prime terms.
      
      
    • Shhh, is your blog full of  
      Like American Idol judge, Simon Cowell would say,
      
      
    • PODCAST: RETS2 and you 
      RETS is a behind the scenes technology your IDX or web company uses to import MLS data. RETS helps keep the data uniform as MLS information varies substantially between providers.
      
      
    • Feed your real estate blog to the dogs 
      One of the best pieces of advice I can give you about your real estate blog is that it doesn
      
      
    • Does your blogroll suck? 
      Blogrolls are nothing more than glorified link farms and that is exactly what Google sees them as.
      
      
    • Do you have a stick up your blog 
      So, pull that stick out of your blog and shake things up, write like you are Mr. or Ms. Personality by following these 5 simple blog writing rules
      
      
    • Learn How To SEO Your Blog 
      RSS Pieces has a sure fire system that will guarantee that your real estate blog starts getting searched and indexed more often.
      
      
    • Learn How to Market Your Blog 
      RSS Pieces has a sure fire blog marketing system that will guarantee that your real estate blog is a success.
      
      
    • Learn How To Blog for Real Estate 
      RSS Pieces has a sure fire system that will guarantee that your real estate blog is a success.
      
      
    • Welcome New Real Estate Blogs 
      Want to see some of the latest real estate blogs to join the RSS Pieces family?
      
      
    • Formula for a successful real estate blog post 
      Wouldn't it be nice if you had a sure fire formula for writing killer real estate blog posts that drive huge targeted traffic and search engine interest?
      
      
    • 2007 REBA Awards 
      RSS Pieces is proud to announce that our little site has been nominated for a 2007 REBA award by Housing Wire.
      
      
    • New Year's Resolutions for Your Blog 
      Here are 10 resolutions you can use to build your brand, traffic and leads online in 2007.
      
      
    • 2006 best real estate bloging posts 
      With our first year over, RSS Pieces thought we'd take a look back through our 2006 stats and see which real estate blog articles had the most readership
      
      
    • How to drive local traffic to your blog 
      What the savvy real estate blogger wants is big LOCAL blog traffic.
      
      
    • Increase blog subscribers with 7 easy steps 
      Your RSS feed is your way of making sure that your visitors keep returning to your site and reading your content. Learn how to increase RSS subscribers.
      
      
    • Real estate blog rookie mistakes 
      Knowing what they are and how to avoid them will ensure that your new real estate blog survives and thrives on the wild wild web.
      
      
    • The first 3 days of blog life 
      It would be interesting to chronicle the first few days of YankeeBlogSwap.com to show people what an RSS Pieces blog can do
      
      
    • The New Marketing Paradigm 
      I thought I would bring to the table a new marketing paradigm that might help you understand why it is all so important.
      
      
    • Online Event Marketing Tips 
      You can coordinate some pretty successful online events if you just put your out of the box thinking cap on.
      
      
    • To pay or not to pay: professional bloggers 
      So, here are the facts I feel you should know when hiring a real estate blogger.
      
      
    • Tag, I'm it! Paul Chaney Memed Me. 
      I was memed this morning by my friend and competitor, Paul Chaney of Blogging Systems.
      
      
    • Are you contagious? Viral Marketing 101 
      Get your vaccinations and slip on the body condom, we are about to tour the infectious world of viral marketing.
      
      
    • Build credibility with tutorial marketing 
      Nothing drives traffic and subscribers better than a good tutorial post.
      
      
    • Predatory Blogging 
      Your blog is your secret lair where you lure your prey so you can go in for the kill.
      
      
    • Ultimate guide to blog marketing 
      So, here is my ultimate guide to marketing your real estate blog.
      
      
    • Is toothpaste holding your blog together? 
      Most blogs out there lack the substance needed to support healthy lead generation.
      
      
    • Using links to retain visitors & generate leads 
      Using links properly can increase real estate blog visitor retention, leads, search positioning and even PageRank.
      
      
    • The Real Estate Yankee Blog Swap 
      On Tuesday, December 19th, the real estate blogosphere will be turned on its head when 20 of the industrys top bloggers swap blogs for a day.
      
      
    • What is on my bookshelf? 
      Recommended blogging books for real estate bloggers.
      
      
    • How to write a blog that generates leads 
      In order to influence people into contacting you and feeling compelled to use your service over every other real estate agent in your area, you must establish 3 things:
      
      
    • The lazy man's guide to real estate blogging 
      So, we seek out the tips, tricks and shortcuts that make things like blogging easier. These are a few ideas for the
      
      
    • 10 Features of Successful Blogs 
      Successful blogs all have one thing in common: they strike the perfect balance between a good user interface with intuitive functionality and great content.
      
      
    • Using Social Bookmarks to Promote Your Blog 
      Learn how to use social bookmarks and social news sites to promote your blog.
      
      
    • Pimp my blog: become a guilty pleasure 
      Yo, yo, yo, it
      
      
    • Top 10 Best SEO Web Tools 
      A list of 10 of my favorite free web-based SEO tools that will help you to SEO your site like a pro.
      
      
    • Ultimate Guide to Branding a Real Estate Blog 
      You might be USDA Prime as a Realtor but if your brand doesn
      
      
    • Funny real estate story winner 
      Well, there were plenty of entries to this contest for the funniest real estate experience. And here are the winners.
      
      
    • 12 steps for managing blog addiction 
      Here is my blogging addiction enabler post: 12 Step Program to Managing Your Addiction.
      
      
    • Do you know the 6 signs of blog death? 
      There are 6 sure fire ways to spot blog death and you need to know them before it is too late.
      
      
    • MYTH: single property websites drive traffic 
      Realtors
      
      
    • NAR in the rearview: real estate rocks! 
      You put 25,000 real estate professionals into one city and you are bound to have some fun. And that is exactly what happened.
      
      
    • Book Review: Realty Blogging 
      This article was remotely posted and needs a description
      
      
    • NAR Highlights 
      So, for those of you that did not make the trip to NAR, here is a brief recap of yesterday's events.
      
      
    • 7 DAY PLAN to real estate blog success 
      Give me one week and I will make you a better real estate blogger. Its true. I am going to specifically lay out a sure fire way to boost your sites traffic in one week, guaranteed.
      
      
    • What Madonna can teach you about blogging 
      As a blogger, you need to follow the
      
      
    • HOW MUCH IS your blog worth? 
      Your website should MAKE money not TAKE money by directly generating income from Google AdSense or an affiliate program.
      
      
    • GUERRILLA BLOGGING: marketing strategy 
      I use Guerrilla Marketing strategies in every blog. It helps with lead conversion and building trust. Learn how to use Guerrilla Marketing tactics in your blog.
      
      
    • THE RULES of commenting for traffic 
      Commenting is an art form and when you use it drive traffic back to your blog you are bound by the rules of professional courtesy.
      
      
    • PLAN A BLOG WAR for increased traffic 
      A real estate blog is a marketing tool and marketing IS a science that can be managed methodically. Each post should be planned in advance so that your time spent blogging is efficient and each post builds on one another to create an egaging masterpiece.
      
      
    • HANDLING the angry blogger 
      While there are many ways of handling an attack, the key to managing a nasty commenter or blogger is professionalism and authority.
      
      
    • BOOST TRAFFIC 40% in 1 hour/day 
      Learn how marketing your blog properly will increase traffic by 40%, page rank by 500% and boost your Alexa rank into the top 100,000 of all sites on the internet.
      
      
    • HOW TO AVOID the bipolar blog 
      When you are writing for the web, you must stay focused and on-topic
      
      
    • TOP 5 SECRETS of successful blogs 
      For those of you that have been watching the launch of RSS Pieces, you might have noticed that we came onto the scene strong. Learn how you can do it too.