I am not blogging on a daily basis but i can see how annoying this could be for someone that is very serious about sharing information with one another.

With that in mind, I have a question for you, if you have the time to answer or comment back I would very much appreciate it. I manage something very close to a Real Estate Hedge Fund except that each investor has an equity position and i don’t fall under the accredited investor requirement. I recently started to get very involved in web sites and blogs. I am already fairly technically having worked for Andersen Consulting for 5 years before they turned Accenture.

My question is: with so many choices on how to communicate how do you figure out what is best for you (that being me). In other words i have my main web site that I use to communicate my company marketing. I have a few other specialty sites that i use to rent property and do credit repair. I also have 3 blogs that i use to track lenders, rent to own clients and rental property status.

Now i am ready to take the next step and really make an impression. I realize it doesn’t happen over night and I expect this to be a 2008 2nd quarter result, but which direction is the best in your opinion.

Here is what i know:
1. I could figure out a subject or number of subjects to blog about and grow an audience similar to your blog. However i must be careful separating business from the blog unless someone approaches me for services. No sales in the blog.
2. I can write relevant articles about my business, real estate, distressed properties, lending, credit repair and rent to own – all the capabilities we have as a real estate hedge fund.
3. I could do some Google advertising to simply bring traffic to my web site, but i am not sure if that is the type of buzz i am trying to create.

Any comments would be appreciated, you just seemed like the type of guy that would be more the willing to comment back.

BTW i am not an agent, however i do buy and sell properties – web site has more detail on there dometri.com

Daniel

This came from a domain in Canada and was not, I don’t think, a paid comment, simply someone using a dofollow list and inserting the same one line comment on every blog he came across where there was a relevant discussion.

This type of tactic often goes unnoticed, particularly by the less wary or newer bloggers. Unfortunately for this guy, as a reader of several of the blogs he was targeting, the pattern was pretty obvious and when it appeared on one of my threads, the URL was stripped out and a rather ornery response posted I also alerted the other blogs to this guy’s MO.

When no response was forthcoming from any of the barbed criticisms he received at the blogs in question it was even more obvious he was just a drive by advertiser. Considering the URL he linked to, using a product name as anchor text, was not even a blog, and extremely unlikely to be of interest to my readers who probably don’t buy pseudo ghetto wardrobe items, it makes him a spammer in my eyes, and not even a very clever one. Like you, I blasted his details of to the anti spam databases.

Folks out there need to be extremely careful with people that promise to get you search positioning. Many are clueless and sadly, many are crooks.

24 hours later and still no response from the email. Maybe it’s just me, but had I received an email like that, I’d have responded.