Comments on: Posterous Takes on ActiveRain. Calls It A Dying Platform. http://rebliss.com/blog/2010/06/29/posterous-takes-on-activerain-calls-it-a-dying-platform/ Technology for Real Estate Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bryan McDonald http://rebliss.com/blog/2010/06/29/posterous-takes-on-activerain-calls-it-a-dying-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Bryan McDonald Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:21:14 +0000 http://rebliss.com/?p=1453#comment-316 Bill, I have a free account on ActiveRain. When I blog on ActiveRain, it is not visible to everyone and does not get indexed on the search engines. I am given the option to upgrade to RainMaker Account for $29 a month. This is extremely high, especially given your comments that you have received 3 orders in 3 years from the website. I updated the blog post with images showing this information. Thanks for the comment, it was a good one and you gave a lot more information about the topic. Bill, I have a free account on ActiveRain. When I blog on ActiveRain, it is not visible to everyone and does not get indexed on the search engines. I am given the option to upgrade to RainMaker Account for $29 a month. This is extremely high, especially given your comments that you have received 3 orders in 3 years from the website. I updated the blog post with images showing this information. Thanks for the comment, it was a good one and you gave a lot more information about the topic.

]]> By: Bryan McDonald http://rebliss.com/blog/2010/06/29/posterous-takes-on-activerain-calls-it-a-dying-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Bryan McDonald Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:13:13 +0000 http://rebliss.com/?p=1453#comment-315 Bill, great info. Only 3 orders and 4 friends from local agents through ActiveRain in 3 years seems low for what I would image would be a lot of time on the site. I think you are right, and like I said in the blog post, the biggest benefit of ActiveRain is the large community there, there is a ton of good info and conversations about real estate trends and issues. I do disagree with you about duplicating content, my personal philosphy is to use different medians for different reasons, targeting different audiences, and creating different content. When I first posted to ActiveRain I duplicated a few blog posts from this website, it was way to difficult and time consuming, and like I said, I now personally believe different services should be used differently. You are right that ActiveRain is hard to use and make your posts look good, hopefully they feel a little pressure from Posterous and make it easier for bloggers. Thanks for the info and comment Bill! Bill, great info. Only 3 orders and 4 friends from local agents through ActiveRain in 3 years seems low for what I would image would be a lot of time on the site. I think you are right, and like I said in the blog post, the biggest benefit of ActiveRain is the large community there, there is a ton of good info and conversations about real estate trends and issues. I do disagree with you about duplicating content, my personal philosphy is to use different medians for different reasons, targeting different audiences, and creating different content. When I first posted to ActiveRain I duplicated a few blog posts from this website, it was way to difficult and time consuming, and like I said, I now personally believe different services should be used differently. You are right that ActiveRain is hard to use and make your posts look good, hopefully they feel a little pressure from Posterous and make it easier for bloggers. Thanks for the info and comment Bill!

]]> By: Bill Cobb http://rebliss.com/blog/2010/06/29/posterous-takes-on-activerain-calls-it-a-dying-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Bill Cobb Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:40:17 +0000 http://rebliss.com/?p=1453#comment-313 Well Bryan, this may be a question as to what blog platform is easier to use versus what platform really gets you results. I have blogs on both platforms, AR (Active Rain) since 2007 and Posterous since 2009. My AR blog is the "free" version, not paid. And, I can attribute my involvement in AR with 3 appraisal orders since 2007. I've become friends with 4 local agents through my involvement in AR as well. I think I'm also still in the Top 5 Appraisers on AR points wise, which is no big deal, just diligence and posting your content to more than 1 platform. If you're going to take the time to write a well thought out blog post, why only publish it to one platform....I've never been dinged for duplicate content that I know of. AR: The positives and negatives. Both are recognized as authority sites, so both rank well PR wise. However, AR is real estate themed, real estate recognized and based....so the question remains will Google better recognize your "real estate professional" post on AR than it will Posterous? I know I receive my google alerts within minutes to hours of submission on AR and not quite as fast on Posterous. Of course though, I have posted to AR more than Posterous. So, Google wise, AR has worked well for me and Google is the 800lbs Gorilla that matters. Brad Andersohn with AR. All I can say is that my experience with AR has been helped by Brad Andersohn at AR. With 185K members, I can still email Brad and get his attention and a reply. Last time I emailed him, he personally called me back with an answer and how my question could better help the users of AR in the future. Wisdom. Since AR is real estate related, I've learned a great deal about topics real estate related from the veterans and newbies postings. It does me good to see and read what's going on in other parts of the U.S. and how others appraisers handle certain situations. The negative on AR. The negative of the AR platform is the difficulty in making your post look good, even awesome, with their limited html posting for video and audio. In fact, I never have figured out AR's method to their madness when it comes to posting and getting your images within the post to remain where you want them. That is a negative! I hate their WYSIWYG html feature. I've overcome this by posting my blog post on my own blog the way it's supposed to look first and then posting an excerpt with an enticing image on AR with a link to click on to visit my blog for the remainder. This benefits my blogs immensely by having links from an authority site such as AR. Why not post your same content to AR, Posterous, Ning, etc...using different titles for each different platform? There's a way to spread your message and get ranked for a wide variety of keyword phrases. Just my thoughts on my somewhat positive experience using AR. I do love receiving my weekly Posterous email updates from those I'm subscribed to. After reviewing a Posterous email update I just received, I can see why Posterous can make such a claim. Guy Kawasaki's post look so awesome on Posterous! Bryan, it's just absolutely amazing to me what can be accomplished online with just 1 single blog and Google indexing. 5 Years ago, it wasn't nearly this easy! Appreciate You! Bill Well Bryan, this may be a question as to what blog platform is easier to use versus what platform really gets you results. I have blogs on both platforms, AR (Active Rain) since 2007 and Posterous since 2009. My AR blog is the “free” version, not paid. And, I can attribute my involvement in AR with 3 appraisal orders since 2007. I’ve become friends with 4 local agents through my involvement in AR as well. I think I’m also still in the Top 5 Appraisers on AR points wise, which is no big deal, just diligence and posting your content to more than 1 platform. If you’re going to take the time to write a well thought out blog post, why only publish it to one platform….I’ve never been dinged for duplicate content that I know of.

AR: The positives and negatives. Both are recognized as authority sites, so both rank well PR wise. However, AR is real estate themed, real estate recognized and based….so the question remains will Google better recognize your “real estate professional” post on AR than it will Posterous? I know I receive my google alerts within minutes to hours of submission on AR and not quite as fast on Posterous. Of course though, I have posted to AR more than Posterous. So, Google wise, AR has worked well for me and Google is the 800lbs Gorilla that matters.

Brad Andersohn with AR. All I can say is that my experience with AR has been helped by Brad Andersohn at AR. With 185K members, I can still email Brad and get his attention and a reply. Last time I emailed him, he personally called me back with an answer and how my question could better help the users of AR in the future.

Wisdom. Since AR is real estate related, I’ve learned a great deal about topics real estate related from the veterans and newbies postings. It does me good to see and read what’s going on in other parts of the U.S. and how others appraisers handle certain situations.

The negative on AR. The negative of the AR platform is the difficulty in making your post look good, even awesome, with their limited html posting for video and audio. In fact, I never have figured out AR’s method to their madness when it comes to posting and getting your images within the post to remain where you want them. That is a negative! I hate their WYSIWYG html feature. I’ve overcome this by posting my blog post on my own blog the way it’s supposed to look first and then posting an excerpt with an enticing image on AR with a link to click on to visit my blog for the remainder. This benefits my blogs immensely by having links from an authority site such as AR.

Why not post your same content to AR, Posterous, Ning, etc…using different titles for each different platform? There’s a way to spread your message and get ranked for a wide variety of keyword phrases.

Just my thoughts on my somewhat positive experience using AR. I do love receiving my weekly Posterous email updates from those I’m subscribed to. After reviewing a Posterous email update I just received, I can see why Posterous can make such a claim. Guy Kawasaki’s post look so awesome on Posterous!

Bryan, it’s just absolutely amazing to me what can be accomplished online with just 1 single blog and Google indexing. 5 Years ago, it wasn’t nearly this easy!

Appreciate You!
Bill

]]> By: Bryan McDonald http://rebliss.com/blog/2010/06/29/posterous-takes-on-activerain-calls-it-a-dying-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Bryan McDonald Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:30:38 +0000 http://rebliss.com/?p=1453#comment-312 I didn't know they were going to take on ActiveRain either, it will be interesting to see who they take on next. I have an account with ActiveRain like you. The funny thing is I didn't know how much it cost to make my posts public on their site, I just knew it was not free and any amount of money was too much for me. $30 per month is pricey too! I didn’t know they were going to take on ActiveRain either, it will be interesting to see who they take on next. I have an account with ActiveRain like you. The funny thing is I didn’t know how much it cost to make my posts public on their site, I just knew it was not free and any amount of money was too much for me. $30 per month is pricey too!

]]> By: Bryan McDonald http://rebliss.com/blog/2010/06/29/posterous-takes-on-activerain-calls-it-a-dying-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Bryan McDonald Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:39:54 +0000 http://rebliss.com/?p=1453#comment-310 Thanks Duke, It does not get any easier than that! Thanks Duke, It does not get any easier than that!

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]]> By: Duke Long http://rebliss.com/blog/2010/06/29/posterous-takes-on-activerain-calls-it-a-dying-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Duke Long Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:37:34 +0000 http://rebliss.com/?p=1453#comment-308 Posterous= drag, drop, e-mail hit send and you are a blogger...to the world. Posterous= drag, drop, e-mail hit send and you are a blogger…to the world.

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