Morgan Carey's Blog: Blog Planning

We have increase the number of characters shown as a summary on the default page of your blog, with longer descriptions (In combination with the new image hack) - this should help generate even more interest from your main blog page in each blog article you write. Read Full Post

REW Blogs are different than a lot of the other real estate blogging platforms in the sense that they are set up with many different elements, each one with it's own specific function constructed to help the user make the most of their blogs, and help them not only maintain a very high level of quality, but also make sure they are always in compliance with all search engines terms of usage.

We also make constant improvements to REW blogs to help the users get their blogs seen by those internet users who will be interested in their services. In order to help new users find all of the helpful blog posts and forum threads I am going to compile a list of the information and tutorials available which are right now scattered between the blogs and forums. The… Read Full Post

When setting up an REW Blog, it is important to understand the technology and features and more importantly how to use them. This tutorial is meant to help REW Blog users set up their blogs for maximum exposure, great click through and user friendliness.

Step one: Your right hand profile.

This is perhaps the most important portion of the REW Blog setup, as you are creating the area of your blog where people will see your face, and read a short bio about you. It also contains the links to your website, listings added to REW blogs, and your contact page.

There are basically 2 components to the right hand side the photo and the writeup.

Component 1: The photo - Your photo is the visual presentation of yourself to your readers. It should be… Read Full Post

I am checking out the list of RSS submit sites located at masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/ to see if any of them are viable for REW Blog submissions Read Full Post

A great big hello to all REW Bloggers.

This is the first official test of my REW Blogs updating system. I will be periodically sending updates to all REW Blog users with helpful tips, news on recent upgrades and releases, helpful threads on how to best use the REW blogs and much more.

So here goes, a couple of quick tips for you.

About yourself - when you are logged in to REW Blogs, you will see a link that goes to "Blog Settings" click on this and you will see that the second field you can fill in is the "About yourself" field. I have noticed a lot of members not filling in this field so I figured I would address this.

This field is like your signature - it is at the top right of every quality post you make on your blog, so by filling in…

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We need to create a system for allowing blog users to refer new bloggers. The goal would be to integrate some kind of points system - not just for blogs created, but extra points for posters that become great posters, highly ranked, top posters etc - would also be nice to tie it into the REW forum referrals - the goal would be to reward members for sending referrals like giving them free web work, hosting etc Read Full Post

We need a sitemap for REW blogs - Mike see me on this tomorrow :) I have some good ideas for interlinking of blogs.

Oh yeah, I also have an idea for tying the glossary into the blogs - it is going to be a busy week.

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It would be nice to have a stats link for logged in users. On there we could show them stats like most viewed post, most viewed category, most commented post.

Also total comments, total views etc

It is quite encouraging to members when they see

To date your blog posts have been viewed by: 5688 people and have recieved 500 comments. .

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