Rebar camp in Denver Colorado - Writing for blogs - Gretchen Faber

I was looking forward to this because I suck at writing. I'll put my verbal communiation against anybody, including professional motivational speakers. Writing though ...

Gretchen has a blog www.lifestyledenver.com and I heard a success story about selling a 1.2 million dollar home off of a lead from her blog. That gave me hope. That is something all bloggers need.

Her biggerst tip was to write good headlines. The idea of writing practical title rather than cute seemed very relevant. If you want SEO write practical not cute.

Some of the other names and blogs that they threw out Marianne Wagner and Todd Carpenter. Specific names that were mentioned as good sources were Real Estate Tomato and Copyblogger as learning tools.

The class was good because there were a couple of people in the audience who were friends with Gretchen and knew a lot about what was going on. There was the best explanation of long tail keyword search that I had heard. It is very difficult to explain thouroughly in a short amount of space and I'm not the writer to do it. There is a book called, The Long Tail. It sounded like a great recommendation.

I brought up the subject of Active Rain because most of the big time bloggers appear to have their own domain, and most seem to be using WordPress. I got a great recommendation from Connie Watts, who drove all the way from Omaha, Nebraska to come down here. She stated that she is getting great results from using the outside blog feature on Active Rain. The fact someone drove that far really made me appreciate how valuable the Rebar camp was.

The opening session and links to all sessions