blogvp

So I’m browsing the regular blogs that I read and I was thinking… what’s a good idea to blog about. A lot of different thoughts went through my head and then I thought about doing a local blog and seeing how that turns out.

What I’m starting is the Boise Real Estate News with the focus on the local real estate market.

Thoughts to keep in mind:

• Visitors - there will be visitors that are local, but I’m betting that a big chunk of the traffic will be people from out of town who are looking to get into the hot Boise real estate market.
• Existing “market” - Overture keywords tells me that there were 5108 for “boise real estate” last month, and this is only for that keyword and only on that engine. How much traffic is google sending?
• Domain name - a quick search revealed that the domain boiserealestatenews.com was available. This was a good choice because it has the main keywords that I’ll be optimizing for in the domain name and the “news” implies something fresh and new all of the time, it’s “news” right?
• Always updating and fresh - I’ve set up a script to automatically pull news from Google:News and format it nicely and put it up on the site. I’m currently sticking to “boise” and “real estate” from the news section of Google. This will make sure that I always fulfill th “news” portion of the domain.
• Original content - I’m thinking of how I might do this. One idea that seems like a good idea is to contact the local real estate agents and ask them to submit article for us to publish and include their information at the bottom after the article. I’ll also look into getting real estate article from ariticle databases.
• Competition for #1 spot - because the real estate is really hot in the boise area there’s a lot of competition, but I’m not worried. Most of the sites are home-brewed with Frontpage or something similar to that. The only thing that is going for the existing sites is that they have been around longer then my site.