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By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » What to Look For In Your Real Estate Blog Stats

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:29:34 +0000

[...] More Stat Fun On a related note, I’d feel like I was hiding something if I didn’t give an update on our statistics at the beginning of the month (jan, feb). Here are the same two stat charts updated to include data for March: [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:52:23 +0000

Ardell,

One of the nice parts with using Saul and John’s system is that they seem to have some amazingly good technical support (and that counts for a lot!). But from what I’ve seen, their blogging platform leaves a lot to be desired, and I’d personally rather work with something like WordPress that has a huge developer community behind it so that I have access to a vast array of plug-ins.

By the way, I’ve been testing out the latest version of WordPress (they recently went from version 1.5 to 2.0) and that has a non-html interface for posting articles. I think I’ll upgrade soon, which should make it that much easier for you to post articles!

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:27:37 +0000

Well you know I have a RealTalkblog through Saul and John. They have a “send ping” button that goes to four including technorati.

I like the ease of my blog, no html proficiency required. Just straight typing. But should I be moving it?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:00:22 +0000

Ardell,

The lack of clarity about technorati might stem from the fact that the bread-and-butter of their operation is focused on finding people who are linking to your site, and doesn’t offer a way (at least not an obvious way) to search for articles that you have written. In other words, if you link to articles from other bloggers in a post AND then you ping technorati, your link will show up when those other bloggers search for articles that link to them… It sounds much more complicated that it is, especially since most blogging software packages automatically ping technorati for you when you post.

With that said, you might want to check that you are pinging the correct server: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

Does this help make sense out of their service?

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:02:49 +0000

I tried to claim my blog, http://realtownblogs.com/?u=Ardell, at Technorati yesterday, but couldn’t get through the process. I emailed them, but no response yet. Admittedly, I know a lot more about real estate than blogging and pinging Though I do ping to Technorati, there appears to be some advantage to also “claiming” my blog there. Is this true?

Have only been a “blogger” for 30 days. I’m getting the hang of it, but clearly do not know how to do whatever it is Technorati wants me to do. Something about neat little sidebars as I recall.

By: David Brunelle

David Brunelle — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:28:38 +0000

Technorati doesn't catch them all, but Google gets some that Technorati won't. Looks like Google counts 269 links to Rain City Guide.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:07:23 +0000

Thanks Jason! I must admit that I sneak a peak over at technorati a little too often to see if there are any new links coming in, but as you're probably aware, technorati doesn't catch them all...

By: Jason R Yormark

Jason R Yormark — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:56:29 +0000

You rank well organically because you do something that most niche sites fail to do; post frequently and pertinently. You have a fantastic breadth of real estate information, and my guess is you are probably being linked to more then you know. Search Engines love that formula.

Kudos to a great site that I frequent regularly even though I’m only mildly in the market. Keep up the good work!