If you are involved in real estate marketing, whether it be as an agent or broker and you have a website, you should read on…
I’m currently in the process of compiling a list of dofollow blogs for the real estate industry that can assist your website with obtaining better search engine positioning.
If you already know everything you need to about do follow attributes, then skip to the bottom of this post to preview the list. Otherwise, I recommend that you read on.
What is a DoFollow Blog & Why Is It Relevant to Me?
Blogs now come standard with a “nofollow” attribute, which essentially tells the search engines that the link from the blog to your website is not trustworthy. Therefore, taking away any benefits that the search engines may have provided your website to help it rank better.
Blogs that have removed the nofollow attribute and added the dofollow are telling the search engines that the blog trusts your site and can therefore pass on the ‘link juice’ which can help your site rank better in Google, MSN, Yahoo etc.
If you operate a real estate website, you will receive more value from the search engines by posting or receiving links from other real estate related websites. This is because the search engines will see that other reputable real estate sites are linking to your site and therefore rank your real estate related keywords better.
Words Of Warning About Posting On Blogs
Just because the blog owner has been nice enough to remove the dofollow tags from their links, this doesn’t mean you should go spamming their sites. They’ve been nice by showing the link love, so please be respectful to them and only put good quality, well thought out, insightful comment on their sites. Ask yourself, “Does my post improve the experience for the readers of the site?” If it doesn’t, don’t post it. It’s as simple as that.
Try and find blogs in the list below that you enjoy reading and that you can contribute good content on. You’ll get the the link love in return and you might learn something while making some great friends at the same time. What can be better than that?
Also, it will help you if you don’t go blog posting crazy. I wouldn’t recommend posting on hundreds of blogs to get ahead in the search engines. Just keep it simple and go after the ones you enjoy. This way it will look natural to the search engines (because it is natural) and will benefit everyone in the long run. To rank well you need a variety of quality backlinks from different types of sites (not just blog sites).
If you have a dofollow real estate blog and would like to submit it to this site, please post a response and I’ll be sure to add your site to the following list:
www.seobloke.com
www.braxtonbeyer.com
www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog
www.indyrebaterealestate.com/blog
www.newhomessection.com/blog
www.tampa-real-estate-blog.com
www.weknowurban.com
www.teamaguilar.com/blogs
www.houstonhousingmarket.org
www.realestatebloglab.com
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Hey Mark, great post. I’m sorta new to “do-follow” vs “no-follow”. Do I have to actually post my website link in the comment I write to get credit? For example, should I include my website in my signature…or is that not necessary?
Gregg, It may help you a little bit. I would recommend writing only on blogs that you enjoy reading and contribute to the overall user experience for all involved.
You can use certain keywords in the title that your clients may use to locate you – such as “real estate investment.” Then where it asks for a website name – add your site.
Just be careful though, some blog owners may get offended by this and treat your comments as spam. However, many (like me) don’t mind giving you a little link juice if you’re adding good comment to the site and you’re legitimately interesting in contributing with good quality comment.
I agree with Mark on the value of SEO, in particular the importance of Natural (organic) SEO and Google’s preference to it when crawling a real estate mobile view Touchphone (iphone Safari OSx & Android OS) web page is becoming increasingly vital for correct placement results and keyword indexing.
However you develope your touch view page’(s) ensure Natural SEO is a key element in the design and build for smartphones. The results will speak loud and clear over time.
I now write a real estate / marketing blog PC and Touch in my spare time. If you have a moment you may wish to read my thoughts over coffee: http://iphonedesigns.wordpress.com/
As the owner of http://www.WeKnowUrban.com one of the “do follow” sites listed in SEO Blokes post I agree with his point that when leaving a comment on a do-follow site be considerate enough to write a comment that is relevant to the post and adds at least a tiny bit of value as well.
I get way too many lame comments like “nice post”. And I get tons of comments that make zero sense; I assume these are written by folks who know very little English. I usually leave the comments alone but sometimes, if I’m in a foul mood, I will delete them or “report” them as spam. I’m conflicted about this at times because on the one hand I practically invite spammers to my site by advertising that I do follow but on the other hand (as SEOBloke states) if I’m good enough to offer the link love the least folks can do is take a minute or two to write a decent comment. ‘Nuf said. W
Hi Mark
I just added your website to my favorites so i can come here and read about SEO.
It’s kind of new concept to me but i want to make my site better. I’ve tried to start a blog also on my website http://blog.sorintoma.net/ and make it do follow blog but I don’t know where to turn this setting on.
If you can point me in the right direction I would appreciate.
Thank you
Sorin
Discipline is one of the requirements to use the SEO technique to boost your online marketing strategies. Today, many bloggers are really abusive when it comes to getting backlinks for their website. A good and clean motive will earn an effective result. BTW, thanks for this article…I will share it to my colleagues.
Thanks a lot for a bunch of good tips. I look forward to reading more on the topic in the future. Keep up the good work! This blog is going to be great resource. Love reading it.
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With the development of private property ownership, real estate has become a major area of business, commonly referred to as commercial real estate,the real estate industry has evolved into several distinct fields.
Thanks for the list of do-follow real estate blogs.
SEO is not easy task because you may have to be alert and make quality chose of link to get higher PR and good traffic. Thanks for sharing !
Thanks Mark for these do follow blog list.Keep up the good work. This blog is going to be great resource.Your blog is Interesting to read.Thanks for sharing.
Hey Mark,Thanks for list these blogs are good do follow blogs .But it is too old (I think so).Well I am waiting for some new listing from your side.
Thanks for the nice Post..I really enjoy the nice Post..Keep Sharing..
for me, i am useing seo quake to recognized dofollow links from no follow links and i think it is very useful for everybody .you should try it.
Hi,
Since we are changing our linking policy in some of our blogs from now on, I think that being part of your dofollow list will help us get even more comments, so I’d like to ask you to take a look at our blogs and if you think it is ok, to include them in your list.
Here they are:
http://www.foreclosuredataonline.com/blog/
http://www.foreclosure1.com/blog/
All new comments will be moderated and the links will not have the “nofollow” anymore.
Thank you
Thanks for the great list of blogs Mark. I’ve been searching actually for blogs related to real estate but it’s difficult to search. I already spent an hour but only found a number of dofollow real estate blog