Is your name working for you in your real estate blog?

Don’t have a blog? Don’t know how to even get one started? Fear not! Here’s a short tutorial on how you can set up your very own self-hosted wordpress blog in five easy steps.

Takeaways from this video include:

1. Do your keyword research! This is probably THE most important part of starting a blog that is actually going to produce the REAL results that you are looking for!

2. Choose a keyword-rich URL (if possible). Yes, most of the best ones have been long gone from being available, but by getting a little creative (and putting the long tail keyword phrases to use) you should be able to come up with a great URL that you can use for your blog.

3. Purchase your URL for at least two years. Search engines like to see that you are serious about your online endeavors – and that includes your URL. If you check out www.websitegrader.com, for instance, you’ll see that one of the items that they use to rate your site is by how long your URL’s life has left. Anything under a year and it’s a mark against you…

4. Correctly set up your hosting by getting help from the pros. This is probably the most delicate part of the all the steps – especially when choosing where your blog is going to be located… trust me – call the free support line that Godaddy offers – you’ll thank me!

5. Take time to choose a theme that will work not only for you, but for your viewers and the search engines. One thing I learned the hard way was that by having a nice, pretty site doesn’t equate to having a site that will garner you great results. For example, if your home page (also the “home base” of your theme), has lots of images but very little text that pertains to what you are providing, you’ll have a harder time getting results than if you did.

Have a question about any of these steps? Feel free to send me a quick note below and I’ll be happy to help you out.

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