rew blogs coming soon need feedback

[Auliya]

If you want in company testers i'll volunteer for a blog to work on on my own time at home.

[webmaster]

Yup as soon as Mike and I get to finishing up the specifics (Working on image uploading, categories, user account creation, featured listings, and RSS) then I can start creating some user accounts

[Memphis]

Heyyyyyyyy...

Memphis, nice theme choice. I'm using the same one for one of my personal blogs - cKandPaula.com. Still tweaking it out, but I'm pretty happy with how it's come along.

Sorry Kid, didn't mean to ignore you. I like that template also. I have pretty much stopped that blog because I had one added to my site and then REW is adding another one, so I am leaving wordpress to fade away. That template is clean and professional looking and I should probably look in to having it added to my blog on my site ( I only had two options to start with).

your blog looks nice, looks like you keep up with it quite a bit.

[jseville]

Morgan, SEO is the main reason I care about blogging. My desire to show/share my expertise in RE would be second--but is a big one for me as well, but no doubt SEO is the priority!
I am rather limited in my knowledge of blog marketing, I do think it's better to structure the blog permalinks so that the title of the post is to be found in the URL--that way key words can be used in the title effectively. Example is here: http://www.justnewlistings.com/arlin...-search-ideas/
In Wordpress it is called a "date and name based" permalink structure and is found under options.

I read an article once on setting up the URL of the blog posts to exclude or place at the end of the URL this portion: 2006/08/13/ That way the keywords are accessed more readily. And one would want the keywords closer in on the URL if I recall--it would require a custom permalink which is over my head. There were several blog marketing SEO articles I read and if I find them I'll shoot them your way so you can take them into account in setting this up. My problem is I'm saavy at marketing and learning more and more about SEO, but I'm almost useless from a tech perspective. But I do hope SEO considerations will be taken into account...it's more important that how pretty the blog is in terms of $$$$. My last 5 clients are internet leads due to content and rankings and follow up. If I don't have content and rankings 1st, then there is no chance to sell (long term follow-up)!

jay

[judyo]

Jay, I don't even use the date in my posts on two of my blogs as it was very simple to create a custom permalink in Wordpress just using the title. I don't really think dates are necessary in the urls.

[kid disco]

I leave the date in my URL for archiving and month/day/year searches.

Here's a recent kick-ass post about optimizing your blog for search engines...

http://www.pronetadvertising.com/art...h-engines.html

[Eric Blackwell]

Kid;

VERY nice post...I just put together a WordPress blog on an unrelatd subject (I have two kids out of four with Autism related issues) and although I knew some of this stuff, we will incorporate some of the rest.

Nice thread...

Morgan;

I will be happy to test if you want. Happy to help any way that you might need...

Eric

[kensmith]

Morgan do you have an ETA for the blogs?

[Memphis]

Kid---nice blog post!

is that spam?

kidding, don't slap me.

[jseville]

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=62055

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01...-optimization/ -- good tips especially on tagging

http://www.successful-blog.com/new-blogger-page/ --- some great links such as a bunch of directories to submit to

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/02...resscom-blogs/ --tips on using html titles in your links with this structure: <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/wordpress-resources/" title="WordPress Resources for WordPress Theme designs, plugins, and blogging tips">WordPress Resources</a>

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10...resscom-users/ --specific step by step directions of how to have FULL tags to your blog posts that are normally stripped away by Wordpress. THIS IS SIGNIFICANT FROM WHAT I'M READING.....

These links will take you to many other links to the point of getting lost so enjoy.

jay