Lydia's Blog: Palmetto Challenge

If you have ever wondered how to get good strong one-way links to your real estate website, I would like to share some very easy ways to do so.  Here is a short list of methods to get those ever desired links to your online real estate shingle, in no particular order:

• Do the world some good and donate on Kiva.  This is a website that lets you donate to entrepreneurs the world over.  It can do your heart good, and create great one way links like this here or this one here.
• Buy a word on thebigwordproject.com.  This is a viral marketing experiment that lets you link words to websites, like the word 'listing'.  The cost? $1 per letter.  OK, not free, but pretty close.
• Use squidoo.  You can create free pages that even generate income, like…

The Palmetto Challenge over at my Elegant Blog is starting to get some attention.  I've got a few entries and a few more people are promising to enter soon.  Being the inaugural winner of a world-wide blogging contest will be quite the feather (should I say palm leaf?) in the cap of whoever wins!

Not only that, but the competition took less than an hour to coat the front page of Google for the term 'Palmetto Challenge'.  The initial REW blog post announcement was there too, but fell off, but my own blog shows multiple times. 

That same link strength will soon be pointing to a few worthy contenders and one amazing winner, so polish those pencils (or keyboards) and knock out some good content.

Remember you have until Friday May 2nd to nominate your…

Hello my fellow real estate bloggers!  Are you up for a challenge?  How about a Palmetto State Challenge?

While I'm the proud proprietor, etc, and etc, of the Elegant Augusta Real Estate Blog, located in Augusta Georgia, I also do business in, and more importantly live, in South Carolina...the Palmetto State.

I'm throwing the gauntlet down to you...Submit your favorite real estate blog post of the week to me at the Blog.  Just send me a link to your entry using my contact form.  I'll link up my leading contenders in an end of the week post.  The following week, in a special blog post, using a special algorithm developed by me, Matt Cutts, and the Google Pigeons, I will announce the blog post I liked the best.

The winner will not only get a link to…