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Nov
02
Posted by Teresa Boardman
I have this little blog, it is mostly about St. Paul and about real estate, and once I wrote about socks. It isn’t always easy to have such a blog and sometimes I need help, but we won’t go into that too much.
I asked Dear Abby for help several times with blog posts, and with the demented commenters who spew on my blog. Then I discovered that there is no Dear Abby for bloggers. So now I am on a mission, to fill that gaping hole. Just call me Dear T, but say it softly I have a headache, from listening to other peoples problems. I don’t know what I am talking about most of the time, but it doesn’t matter because no one else knows what I am talking about either.
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I have previous experience as Dear T. For several years I acted as an employee advocate in a large, mindless money grubbing, heartless, greedy corporation. I listened to peoples problems all day long and provided solutions. Most of the time they solved their own problems but thought that I did. Which was nice because I got to keep my job which paid an obscene amount of money, yet left me feeling cold and empty at the end of the day. I left the job after five years, when I started it I was tall and blond and had legs up to here. By the time I left I was the short dumpy person you see before you today. The nervous twitch went a way a few months after I left the job and it took awhile, but my hair all grew back. I still have the nightmares, even when I am awake but the pills and the shock therapy really help with that.
If I can help, which I can, please leave a comment on this post or contact me at: Teresa(at)tboardman.com. Please keep your problems limited to 1000 words or less and they should be blog or at least real estate related. I hold real estate licenses in MN*, state law prevents me from giving legal or tax advice. In general I am not responsible if my advice causes you to make a career limiting move. If you take my advice and your wife leaves you keep in mind that she probably would have left you long ago and has just been waiting for an excuse.
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Dear T, was released onto the Internet about 10 months ago. She gave advice to bloggers and then disappeared for several months. Some say she was hiding until her hair grew back, others have suggested that she was thrown off the Internet. Larry Cragun talked her into coming out of hiding. We can only assume that Larry has his reasons, and is prepared to clean up the mess.
*Also a MN Real Estate Brokers License, MN fishing license, Notary license, International Drivers License, and a MN drivers license.
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Nov
01
Posted by Teresa Boardman
“Dear T, my blog only has a page rank of 2 and it is keeping me up all night and giving me an inferiority complex. My neighbors site has a page rank 4 and her site is really rank. I just don’t know what to do. could you please help me?
signed.. real rank.”
Dear Real Rank,
I think you are looking for some advice on how to achieve page rank. What do I look like? (A question that you should not consider answering)
You are beyond help, but I like a challenge, heck for me everything is a challenge. Have you tried praying? Probably not, it sounds like you don’t have a prayer anyway. As for not sleeping, that sounds like a personal problem, I don’t do personal.
First of all, if you are a Realtor with a blog that is about your market area, and you have that blog so that you can meet the people who live inside your computer and maybe help them with their real estate needs, why do you care about your page rank? Why do you care about anyone else’s page rank? What exactly is the correlation between page rank and your ability to meet clients through your blog? Did you bother to read my posts 1 and 2 about SEO, and glean from them that content is the magic bullet, and the only thing that matters?
It isn’t about page rank or even about traffic. It is about who is reading your blog, and what you are writing for them. Are you writing posts for consumers who may be in need of your real estate skills, which I sincerely hope for their sake are better than your blogging skills?
I have looked at your blog and if you ask me Goggle is being generous with the 2, it could be zero. Have you considered posting more often? Have you thought about keeping your content focused? Have you ever tried actually writing about your neighborhood or about real estate, instead of American Idol, the Iphone, and what you ate for lunch.
Have you thought about starting a blogroll, or writing something that someone might want to link to? Have you ever left a comment on a related blog? Did you even know that getting links to your blog improves page rank? Why don’t you just go back to your blog and start writing some content that is of value to the buyers and sellers who are on the interent and stop looking at your page rank. Blogs are about content, just worry about that. Keep it real and keep it focused, and write to your intended audience, the rest will come.
Stop Googling yourself all the time, that isn’t helping either. My head hurts and I think my hair is falling out again. I have to go now, time to work on my people skills.
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If I can help, which I can, please leave a comment on this post or contact me at: Teresa(at)tboardman.com. Please keep your problems limited to 1000 words or less and they should be blog or at least real estate related. I hold real estate licenses in MN*, state law prevents me from giving legal or tax advice. In general I am not responsible if my advice causes you to make a career limiting move. If you take my advice and your wife leaves you keep in mind that she probably would have left you long ago and has just been waiting for an excuse.
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Oct
02
Posted by Teresa Boardman
The idea behind using the word “undressed” is transparency. To undress something is to expose it, or make it transparent. The naked truth would be another way of saying it. With that in mind I would like to “expose” the man behind the undressed network, Larry Cragun.
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