Great thoughts here. Thanks.

I took a look at your AR blog and your web site. You have some great content on your AR blog that would work nicely with your local site.

It will certainly add more “juice” to your site and help your SEO if you post to your local site.

AR is a great site for networking and that is exactly what it is worth to you and your business, if you want to get the most out of your posts, put them on your local site when they pertain to your local RE market.

I think you will be surprised at the increase in traffic you will receive to your site.

On a personal note, I would love to have a conversation with Pat Kitano. I love his blog and always find it interesting and thought provoking.

AR is a great place to network, but I am not sure it will ever affect your relationships with your local clients. It certainly won’t affect your SEO rankings, but may lead to others linking to your local site as they get to know you.

What I decided was to migrate some of the material on my AR blog onto my local site. In the long term, I imagine my local site will carry the most content.

At the end of most posts on our local site we encourage readers to use the tag cloud to find articles relevant to their interests.

The new blog is Real Estate Blog Lab. I hope you will all visit and benefit from its existence.

Thanks to all that commented and help make this decision and hopefully give birth to a new blog that will contribute to the real estate blogging community.

I have a fairly focused blog that needs to be targeted towards clients. However, I know that using the RE blogging community is how I’m going to attract business. And in order to do that, it seems I need to write articles daily and in a certain “style”. However, my articles are incredibly client-focused and need time to develop. What a catch-22!

I have found the same heavy hitters that you listed and wonder, how in the world do I get them to notice me? But on the other hand, they aren’t my clients…but there’s a good chance my clients won’t even find me if the heavy hitters don’t see me. Does that make sense?

Anyway, I think your blog has a great balance of client content without being boring. And thanks for the article I needed to see.

Notice that I didn’t rush to correct Dave, of course.

Exact same material though will only get page rank credit one place likely though.

The trouble with “two blogs” in my mind is the output required. I’m of the opinion that a two post a day average is needed to really reach the high end of the blogosphere. (Thats not a goal for everyone of course).

I know what you are saying about passion and writing, I’ve always been a writer, I stopped writing a few years ago for reasons I won’t go into here. Creating our web site got me started writing again, but starting the blog has rekindled an old fire I’m drawing heat from again.

I know the PR will come. Our web site is now PR4 for the home page and PR3 for most others. I used one of the RSS Pieces PageRank predictor tools and it shows the blog will be PR5 on this next update and it is just two months old. I showed something like 3600 backlinks after two months and the web site has 1600 after almost 9 months. The test site I mentioned in the post was indexed in google 7 days after the domain was purchased and the site was put up. I can still search it and it is indexed, of course no PR, but no apparent sandbox either. Same is true for 5 single listing websites I’ve create in the last week which are indexed and coming up when searched. You have inspired me to take more time to post comments. I read a lot of post, but don’t see that my saying anything will add to the post, almost felt like an intruder to post a comment. Then I saw you commenting all over the blogsphere and about the third blog I visited and saw one of your comments, I had to find out who you were, I love your blog.

It seems like we are a new wave of Real Estate bloggers just coming on the scene and having the time of our lives.

Because of blogging I’m learning more about Tucson, our market and statistics. I’m the one Barbara often asks to write a client or talk to them on the phone because I’ve just written a post on a condo conversion, or a projected build out on a gated community. I find myself sharing statistics of all kinds anymore, all because of the blog.

Now I’m off to try and pick a template to modify and a format for a new blog I’m thinking of calling Tucson Real Estate Blogging. At least that is the working title.

Why not have two blogs, I find many of the bloggers I read have an Active Rain blog as well as their own. So it doesn’t matter much where I post, I’ll keep the message clean on both blogs and probably get them both read since they will be interlinked. Twice the blogs twice the juice?