Who Nicked My Blog Post? Go on admit it you took it and hid it on me didn't you?
I wrote a blog post on ActiveRain on Friday titled Open House in Clayton This Weekend at Wyndfall There Will Be Three Houses Open. and copied it to Trulia and Blogger. Nine minutes later it was position three and six on page one of Google for the search term "open house in Clayton". I have seen times where I will rank higher on my computer I believe because of cookies so I asked everyone in my office to Google "Open House in Clayton" and see where it ranked. Number three on one and four and five on another both page one. forty agents and only two replied, but that's another story!
So off I go and get ready for my three open houses ( which was a bust by the way). Saturday morning I Google " open House in Clayton" guess what? GONE I mean GONE!! Today my Activerain outside blog is on page three, a Localism link is on page four, and my ActiveRain post page five. get this though, there is an older ActiveRain Post on page one.
Debe Maxwell wrote a timely post titled I Used to Think ActiveRain was the ONLY Blog I Needed where she addressed duplicate posts and the consensus appears to be that it does not affect your ranking on Google.Thanks Debe if you have not read it get over there and read it.
So can anyone help me find out where my post went and what I can do to get it back on page one of Google for "open House in Clayton" albeit a bit late?
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thnak you for the heads up and, I am sorry that your open house was a bust, I had one also yesterday and I had 8 people there.
Ken, that's a good turn out for an open house. They are really hit or miss, I'm done with them for the rest of Summer.
Howdy and afternoon there David
I have been finding out that the SEO for the AR outside blogs, has not been all that good, since AR put in their new servers. The reason Debe's older AR blog post is still ranking will with Google, has a lot to do with it being Featured by the AR staff in the blog roll. Because those blog posts move around from comments being left on them, Google picks them up more offten. You'll never get an AR staff member to admit to that fact. Back before AR put a stop to all members blog posts, moving up and down the pages they were one with in the community. Our blog posts here actually got a lot better SEO for them.
Have a good one
Dale
Don't quite understand the previous post but I have found that by posting on multiple blogs there is always at least one that is on the first page of google and yahoo.
Marcy