Did you know Zillow has a directory of local real estate blogs? You can find it here http://www.zillow.com/wikipages/Directory-of-Real-Estate-Blogs
I was surprised to see so few Active Rain members. I figured either members
- A. Don't know the directory is there
- B. Aren't familiar with the Wiki format or
- C. Don't like Zillow
I'll deal with A and B here. For C, you're on your own.
Go to http://www.zillow.com/wikipages/Directory-of-Real-Estate-Blogs Click on Edit this page:
Scroll down to "Local Real Estate Blogs" (Unless, of course, "Corporate", "Home Building", "Mortgage" or one of the other categories better suits your blog.)
Click right there in the window, on the Directory text, postioning your cursor at the end of a line right above where you want to insert the link to your blog. Hit Enter. Zillow will create a new bullet point. Type in the name of your blog right after the new bullet point.
As soon as you finish typing in the name, drag your cursor acroos the name to select it. Then click the link icon.
Type in the full URL (web address) for your blog, then click Save.
To finish the job, click Save at the bottom on the directory page. There, you've added your blog to Zillow, and edited a Wiki page in process.
After all, it is one more link back to your site, and that's a good thing.
I am going to check this out! Thanks for the post!
Awesome...I am bookmarking this right now!! Thank you!
Yvette Smith
Williamsburg's Preferred Realtor
John: Absolutely nothing. The inventors of/and users of the wiki format seem to have a refreshing and unusual faith in humans' ability to behave themselves. :-)
If some troll went around tampering with other people's links, I suppose the only recourse would be to contact the big guys at Zillow to lock the troll out of the system.
Great tip as usual. Just added mine to Zillow.
Cheryl,
Thank you for the help. I have linked my other blog and sent notices to my office mates to view your blog to learn how and why my blog is on Zillow.
Cheryl,
Thanks for the heads-up on the Zillow Blog Directory. It's always great to have a place to put another inbound link to your blog.
I will give it a try. Here I go. Thanks
I went to this page and now there is no EDIT option. :(
I fall into all three categories, but I couldn't resist the temptation of a free link from a PR4 site, but Zillow as usual didn't fail to disappoint me... As Karen Rice pointed out the edit option has mysteriously disappeared. I guess there is something to be said about that troll thing (as referenced by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
Great post though, and I will keep an eye out for when that feature becomes available.
Really good info
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Hey Cheryl - I just stumbled across this old post of your. Whew, what a difference a year makes! We now have such a better solution for professionals. Fun to look back like this sometimes to understand how far you've come.
Hey, Sara! Ain't that the truth!
You know, I get a chuckle out of reading stuff people wrote about the market in general back in 2006....