Now that you have gone through the challenging birth process of your cherished online baby, it's time to begin to help your real estate website begin to grow. Remember, a website should be considered a "living document" and that means growing your baby into a toddler, then an adolescent and maybe even someday a full grown adult website.
Then again, some many real estate agents have the Ron Popeil mentality when it comes to their websites. You know what I'm talking about - Set it (or in this case - launch it) and Forget It! If you adhere to this philosophy with your website, good luck attracting many visitors and benefiting from any potential ROI from your website.
I wrote a couple of posts over at the Dakno Real Estate Marketing Blog that offers a few basic tips to help your website be organically sound so it can "support" your business. Consider it baby formula to give your website strong SEO "bones".
Here is a sneak preview of the topics covered in my post:
Checkout the Dakno Real Estate Marketing Blog post on Website Launch Tips and More Website Launch Tips now!
Helping you build stronger website bones!
Bobby Carroll - The Crystal Coast Blogger
Follow me at Twitter: @Realestatecoach
If you read my previous Active Rain post or Brad's post, you probably know that there is a big brawl happening
in Virginia. From Active Rain to Utterli, this Virginia blogging event is spreding like wildfire! Talk about creating a real “buzz”. What's the Buzz all about? Be sure read our client's post at his Charlottesville Real Estate Blog or you can checkout the VAR Buzz Blog for the recap.
Here is a Twitter version recap of Round #2. Dakno client and Brian Chase's Charlottesville Real Estate Blog advanced to round #3 as a result of offering to donate $1 for every vote his blog received ($200 Max) in round #2. His 
blog advanced into round #3! Ok, that was obviously more than 140 characters but hey, I can get away with it here!
We were so impressed with Brian Chase’s commitment to give $1 per vote last round, that the team here at Dakno Marketing decided to match his contribution for round #3. For each vote cast for the Brian Chase C’ville Real Estate Blog, Dakno will give $1 to Toys For Tots (max of $200)! Deadline for voting is 2pm Tuesday November 25th so hurry and cast your vote ASAP. You can visit the VAR Buzz blog or vote using the form below. Thanks for making this holiday season a little brighter for those less fortunate!
Best wishes Brian,
Happy Thanksgiving,
Bobby Carroll
Dakno Real Estate Marketing
I know you've heard this joke; "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out." Well, during the VAR Buzz 
Blog Brawl 2 competition our Dakno client went from combatant to giver. Talk about reverse engineering on a grand scale! Don't get me wrong, Charlottesville Real Estate Blogger Brian Chase remains very competitive but now with a different agenda.
Charlottesville real estate agent Brian Chase has his real estate blog entered in the Virginia Real Estate Blog Brawl 2 sponsored by the Virginia Association of REALTORS®. Brian made it through round 1 in a tightly contested competition. Shrewd use of bribery was the ticket to advance to round 2. You must read Brian's post on Picking a Fight with fellow Virginia Bloggers. With Round 2 voting quickly coming to a close at 11:59PM on Thursday, November 20, time is of the essence.
So here is the new strategy. Every person who votes and let's Brian know by commenting on his Charlottesville real estate blog, he will donate $1 per vote for Toys for Tots (up to a max of $200). We ask that you take a minute from your day (hurry!) and help a deserving child this holiday season. 100% of the proceeds go directly to Toys for Tots. Please vote for the Brian Chase Charlottesville Real Estate Blog in the VarBuzz Blog Brawl. After you have voted, we also ask you head over to Brian's Blog and leave a comment.
I know Brian would love to win the competition. Ultimately, this is now all about the kids! In closing, I find it facinating that during a blog competition Brian turns it on its head and thinks about how others can benefit. Just like Brad said, Nice People Do Still Exist!
Best wishes Brian, we're pulling for you!
Happy Thanksgiving,
Bobby Carroll
Dakno Real Estate Marketing
Being a real estate blogging maniac that I am, I asked my five year old grandson, Taylor Cookman of Waxahachie, TX to write a post for me for my Crystal Coast Blog. I told him to write a post about his favorite things about North Carolina.
When you read Taylor's guest post at my Crystal Coast Blog checkout his blogging skills. You will notice:
Should Taylor decide to secure his Texas real estate license in 13 years, everyone in his hometown better watch out. This young man will offer some serious online competition! He might even know a pretty good blog designer and real estate marketing consultant too!
Lest you think Taylor is the only junior blogger in the family, my grandson Ethan (Brad's son) is sitting under the tutelage of one of the sharpest blogging and marketing minds in the business! Look out bloggersphere!
By, the way, when you go over to my blog on the Crystal Coast, please leave Taylor a comment. You will make his day and his Papa's too!
Yes - please leave a comment here too!
The Crystal Coast Blogger - Bobby Carroll
Twitter-@Realestatecoach
Do You Own an iPhone? Even if you don't, I suggest you become familiar with the iPhone application called 
"Nearby".
The other day I was reading Joel's FOREM post on the "5 APPS Every Real Estate Agent Should Have on Their iPhone" and thought I would give each of the 5 APPS a test drive. One of the more appealing iPhone APPS of the 5 mentioned by Joel was the one called "Nearby". Powered by the website Platial.com, Nearby offers real estate professionals a groundfloor opportunity.
By simply creating yourself a quick profile on Platial.com (arrrg - yes - the list keeps getting longer), you can begin creating plotpoint locations for all kinds of local resources for iPhone users who have the Nearby APP. Platial.com gives you the opportunity to map the location, add a description of the location, upload a photo of location and include a link a post or page from your blog or website where additional information can be found.
This image above illustrates the power of the Platial website. After creating one mapped location in my area of Emerald Isle, NC , I achieved page 2 search results with one simple mapped location of an Emerald Isle condo complex on Platial. Not to shabby. Now granted, my area doesn't poss a mountainous SEO hill to climb (170K returned search results for the keyword Emerald Isle real estate) but that kind of immediate search result tells me I can rank even higher if I populate the rest of the Emerald Isle condo developments using the same tactic on Platial.com.
For the rest of this story, take a cruise over to the Dakno Real Estate Marketing Blog to see the examples of what a Platial.com mapped location looks like.
Leave me a comment and tell if you have tried out Platial.com/Nearby.
Helping you take dominion of your area,
Bobby Carroll - Your Crystal Coast Blogger
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