Syndication of your blog...do you see any benefits?

I've been writing blogs for about a year and a half. I have been selling Real Estate for over 12 years. I'm a pretty darn good Realtor® and have become a pretty darn good blogger as well. Over the last 9 months I have discovered how to generate business from my blogs. Most of it comes from consumers located in Canada and some has been local.

I was trying to figure out how syndication fits into the equation and one day I was reading a blog posted by my freind Renee Burrows and noticed this little button on her side bar. It said Blogburst and I was thinking what is a Blogburst? So I clicked on it and I came up with this site. I asked Renee if she got anything out of it and what it was...she had told me at the time that she didn't see any difference there was by joining but I decided to join. Later on...she changed her tune and was getting a lot of traffic.

I'm not going to get into detail about the process of joining because you'll have to read this post to get that information.

I was finally invited to join their network and nothing happened for about 7 months and then all of a sudden I noticed all of these links to some of the blogs I wrote. I started asking around and people told me that I was syndicated. Over the last few months I have noticed that they will only pick up stories that I write that are local oriented posts.

But I also noticed that I was receiving many more inquiries from over seas and in Canada where we already have a client following. I also added my blog feeds to any site I could find and this has changed my client base from local to out of the area.

Your blogs have the ability to be picked up by some of the world's most popular media sites. All of mine have been picked up on Reuters.... but recently this Activerain featured article was actually picked up by the Chicago Sun Times. 

BlogBurst places blogs on nearly 100 top-tier news and media sites, including:

• Reuters
  http://www.reuters.com/
• USA Today
  http://www.usatoday.com/
• Gannett
  http://www.gannett.com/

• McGraw-Hill Architectural Record
  http://www.construction.com/
• FoxNews
  http://www.foxnews.com/
• Internet Broadcasting
  http://www.ibsys.com/

So what does this all mean? It means that syndication might be a benefit for both out of the area and local consumers. I have seen my blogs on local website. And there are critics that will tell you they see no benefit to it but I don't think it can hurt your exposure.

Think about how many other places you can find your blogs and if there is a consumer looking to come to the area you write about ......then it has to be some sort of a benefit to you so go out and place your RSS or ATOM blog feed everywhere you can

Here is a list of other sites I found where you can place your RSS or ATOM feeds...some of them don't work so just move onto the next.

Here is a recent update for all that need questions answered regarding the content they choose....this was taken right from their site below....

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