[Mark Z]

So do most of you submit your blogs to the social networking sites or articles that you write or both?

[Markz]

No just on my own blog, REW and AR.

[rmasse10]

I try to set up feeds for the Networking sites so when I write a blog post, it will show up across the board...kinda my own little web

[Mark Z]

Originally Posted by rmasse10

I try to set up feeds for the Networking sites so when I write a blog post, it will show up across the board...kinda my own little web

Thats pretty cool, then you don't have to log on and submit your blog to each site? Thats a great idea, how do you do that?

[jamesww]

Originally Posted by rmasse10

I try to set up feeds for the Networking sites so when I write a blog post, it will show up across the board...kinda my own little web

I am in the process of putting together a Digg group for real estate professionals and think running a feed would be a great time saver for everybody. How do you go about putting together these feeds? Thank you for your answer in advance.

[anthony_s3xm8]

I am also in the process of putting up the same concept with this way I can generate more traffic to the website.

[dansps]

I'd try to avoid submitting every single article to social networking sites - at least the big ones, like Digg and Reddit. Those communities respond well only to highly targeted content, and the general real estate article won't connect. I've found that it's best to write articles specifically targeting those readers and only submitting that to those sites.

[dlwest35]

Yes you are righ abotu the Feeds. They are the way to go. It will save you alot of time.

[Eric Blackwell]

As DANSPS said...

Each social networking site has its own culture and what it wants. It is not appropriate (for example) to do a self promotional post and send it to Digg. It will get you nowhere IMO.

IMO they (sites like Digg and reddit) are pretty darn sensitive to that stuff....at one point when the Blogs were just starting up here at REW, they put the submit to digg buttons on and got banned from Digg...as they were getting bombarded with a "few" self promo posts and that really was not what they wanted.

All was sorted out quickly by Webmaster and he posted a thread about it. I think a search under " Digg banned " or etc would find it.

Taking a post or article popular on Digg can be a server melting experience (lots of traffic)...(I've seen it happen real time) but it is often not home buyers...grin.

I personally would not submit to those unless you had some highly targeted material and real purpose for it.

Best

Eric

[erikko]

i guess there's nothing wrong if you submit your 2 week old article in social network sites as long as it's already indexed by Google. So no need to worry about duplicity