We interrupt our regularly scheduled nonsensical posts to bring you this special announcement. Chances are you already know about it, unless you live in a cave where there is no internet access if there is such a place. Active Rain has just announced "Active Blogs" This is a new concept in the real estate industry and certainly on Active Rain where there are many inactive blogs but that is the subject for another post and needs to be written by someone who knows what they are talking about, which for sure isn't me.
According to Active Rain spokes person and all around good guy Jeff Corbett:
" ActiveBlogs allow individual professionals to team up and syndicate multiple types of content from their existing ActiveRain individual accounts to a custom website and url, which delivers innate Search Engine Optimization benefits such as location based Real Area Indexing or ‘Raindexing’.
The aggregation of continuous, targeted and fresh ‘Raindexed’ content within a single domain from numerous individuals improves Long-Tail Search Engine Optimization, efficiently and dramatically improving online marketing efforts.
‘ActiveRain recognizes that dynamic content integrated from multiple sources creates the robust experience today’s real estate consumer is looking for,” said Jeff Corbett, ActiveRain’s vice president of Operations and Business Development. “We believe ActiveBlogs provide a foundation to efficiently display this content.” (The highlighting is mine)
At launch, individual ActiveBlogs are priced at $19 per month while multi-author or ‘Team Blogs’ will cost $79.00 per month for hosting. Personalized branding is possible with numerous template options that may be customized to the administrator’s satisfaction.
‘Real estate related professionals deserve products and services pro-actively designed to suit their unique needs,” Corbett said. ‘No other platform at any price – including free – offers real estate professionals a better value in terms of ease of use, flexibility and seamless movement of content.”
I am still trying to reach Carnac of CT (Linda Davis) so I can find out if this means it will be possible for several people to write crap on one blog and if more crap will mean more business. I am sure she will tell us that if we run crappy businesses a blog won't help. I think she has my number on her caller ID now so she knows it is me calling and won't pick up. (Smart lady but you all know that)
I am also going to speculate that both the Agent Genius and the Bloodhound Blog will want to be on this new platform so that they too can enjoy the benefits of "Raindexed" blogs, but will want to be placed as far apart on the network as possible for obvious reasons. Neither Blog was mentioned in Active Brad's post about the new Active Blogs when he gave examples of multiple author blogs. Perhaps this is Brads way of letting them know that they will need to be on Active Rain to get noticed.
When i get the chance I am going to find out if Active Rain will consider selling their "Raindexing" services separately so that I can use it on my St. Paul real estate blog.
As always I have contacted Boing Boing and they will not comment on this new development but an insider told me that they to are looking for ways to "Raindex" their blog and I will be writing more about that in a future post.
TBoard – thank you. 🙂
I’m holding back judgment until the formal prediction from Carnac of Connecticut. Two heads are better than one so more crap might be a good thing!
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p.s. all in jest of course!
You know I couldn’t let this slide by…
I love Press Releases, stating the obvious is sooo much fun and troubling at the same time.
Like this blog, cleverly disguised as a hot dog stand, Raindexing or Real Area Indexing, are categories (and a url structure) cleverly disguised as local areas…instead of crap tags like ‘Recipes’ and ‘Jeff Corbett’.
The cool thing about Real Area Indexing is you CAN write crap and still get traffic that may lead to business…but we already knew this.
Also, I was at the Google party in NYC last night, where Raindexing was THE buzz. Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt even showed up to personally rewrite Googles algorithm, recognizing that Raindexing is the future of their business.
In return for the special mention here on The Weenie, I’m willing to extend a fully Raindexed site to you Teresa, on me. I sincerely hope you’ll take me up on this once in a lifetime offer.
Yours Truly,
The Bald Monkey, Boing Boing :-p
Jeff you didn’t explain “Raindexing” all the well in your post. I am all for writing crap I have been doing it for years. I would be happy to take you up on your very generous offer. I am getting ready to launch a blog called StPaulPhotos. The photos are already hosted, geo tagged and ready to go and of course there will be more. They need to be posted and I need to write some crap about them. I think some of the photos are crap too so it should work out really well. I know I won’t get any of those golden AR points because most posts will not have enough words in them but it is something I want to do, points or no points.
. . you offered something else in a recent tweet but I won’t hold you to it. LOL still smiling though.