Business Blogging is for the long term- building your following I was looking at our clustrmaps a few minutes ago and wondered if the numbers are going up or down. In other words, are we gaining readers or not. The second question that came to my mind is has our following been growing over the years I have been blogging. I started blogging on ActiveRain in June of 2007. I had another blog on blogger before AR. Consistancy is one of the keys to business blogging. You can see by this chart that... Continue reading ...
Online Business Coaching | SEO Blogging | Website Domination | Linking Campaigns | VA Services Google makes changes in the their algorithms and has been doing so quite a bit it seems as of late. There are some things that remain constant while others die out or become obsolete. It takes time to stay up with all the changes and then shift your internet marketing strategies to align with what is working today and then tomorrow and so on. We get emails weekly from agents and brokers around the c... Continue reading ...
I need your help. I am creating a totally revamped program for you that is going to cover SEO for google page one domination, keyword research, discovering your niche and then creating a marketing branding campaign to speak to that audience and branding yourself as the agent in your market that dominates the search engines. I want you to be a part of this product creation. This is going to be your product. I want to make sure that I get everything into this program that you have been asking f... Continue reading ...
SEO Blogging Really Works. You know, it is one thing when I can show how SEO blogging works for us in our market in our business. But it is more important for SEO blogging to work for you in your markets and in your businesses.
There is this post I wrote back in January of 2008. It seems like it was only yesterday but that was 3 years ago. It was called, Fishing for the longtail. This one post has garnered over 320 comments and still gets comments in 2011.
Back when I wrote that post the onl...
As soon as I finished presenting at ActiveRain RainCamp Online- we had to get ready for the AR Meet-Up because it was starting at 5 p.m. and we like to leave about an 1 hour before so we could be there as the hosts about 15 minutes before the meet-up started. I still had to get our little guy ready, get the camera ready and all the prep stuff that you do before you leave the house. I was able to stay on to hear about 20 minutes of Chris' presentation.   We had about a dozen Rainers at our AR Me... Continue reading ...
We are looking forward to meeting you next week on Thursday September 8 at E.R. Bradley's downtown West Palm Beach on Clematis! Be ready for photos!
The address is: 104 Clematis St. West Palm Beach
E.R Bradley's is a fun one of a kind local hang out right across the street from the Intracoastal waterway at the end of Clematis Street.
We will be meeting from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Please RSVP on the form below so that we can reserve a table. If we don't reserve the table then we will be standing at... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Thursday, September 1, 2011,
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SEO Blogging Tutorial On Getting All ThoseFancy Colors and Fonts on Your Blog Posts.
Over the years we must have written more than a half dozen posts on how to add the different color text, highlights, text sizes and other visual changes to blog posts. But as time goes on, newbies who wonder how to do this most often don't know where to begin to find this information. This is one of the most asked questions on ActiveRain.
Here is a video tutorial on using Scribefireto not just add variety to ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, August 19, 2011,
Always check the source....
It appears that there are businesses who will find out who your 'friends' are through facebook, twitter, ActiveRain and other online sites. Then they call those who you know and claim that you referred them to those contacts. They may also make claims that you endorse their product or service without your permission.
We just discovered that there are a couple of online businesses that have been calling our subscribers here in the rain and telling them that we endor... Continue reading ...
Thanks so much for attending Realbird Webinar today! WoW! What a turnout! We had over 400 attendees!
The webinar was scheduled for one hour but we went over that by at least 40 minutes. Over half of the attendees stayed the entire time. I love teaching these webinars for RealBird because they are so full of energy and such a great response from all of you!
I want to thank each and every one of you that took time out of your day to learn more about Realbird and how you can use Realbird in you... Continue reading ...
How's Realbird working for you? If you have a great prospect turned into a sale story share it here in the comments. If you have used Realbird to land a listing or two, please share that also. 
Haven't heard of Realbird? Realbird is available in United States and Canada. On the fence about whether to sign up for Realbird or not? Been there, done that... I waited and missed great opportunities to get more listings and buyer leads for our buyer agents by waiting to sign up and procrastinating pu... Continue reading ...
Wednesday August 17, 2011 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. That is 9 a.m. Pacific Time
Cost: FREE!
To register for this free webinar, please fill in this simple form:
We will go over how to optimize your single property websites for top search engine ranking and best lead generation.
We will be going over ways that you can use Realbird to get listings. We will also cover SEO tips that you can add to Realbird to get more exposure to your realbird listing s... Continue reading ...
Google Updates Session- For All Alumni and Current SEO Members Reminder this is for today! Google has been making a lot of changes from the caffeine update to the panda update to the new +1 and google circles.
Google is also changing the name of Picasa to Google Photos and Blogger to Google Blogs. They will NOT be changing the name of YouTube but they did shut down google video.
With the new +1 there is important, very important information that you need to know regarding your SEO work on your ... Continue reading ...
Petra Norris is an ActiveRain member and Broker/ Realtor listing and selling Lakeland Fl Homes. She has taken all of our SEO courses, she is in our private coaching and group coaching programs. She does her homework and pays attention to what she needs to do to get business from her online marketing plan.
Last week she received 3 phone calls from sellers who needed to list their homes as short sales. She listed 2 of those houses but the third person ended up needing some help but not listing... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, July 19, 2011,
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Are you happy where you are in your life and in your business? Are you reaching your financial goals? How about your relationships with your family, spouse, significant other, children and friends?
How would you measure up against your list of goals and plans you had for your life?
If you are in that great place and have peace of mind kudos to you! That is a great accomplishment.
If you are NOT where you want to be in your life it is time to take inventory of your environment. I don't mean th... Continue reading ...
By popular demand, Coach Katerina's group coaching is now available. We will be starting the group coaching on July 26h at 6 p.m. Eastern time.
Since my private coaching space is very limited and there are many agents who want to be in a coaching program but it was not in their budget to have private sessions we decided it would serve all our clients better if we offered group coaching.
I still have private coaching but I am limiting my private sessions to 4 clients per month.
Group coaching ... Continue reading ...
SEO Blogging | SEO For Websites | Branding | Group Coaching will be starting up at the end of July. If you want to be on the list for live group coaching please fill out the form below and we ill put you on the list that will give you the details as we get closer to the launch date of the Group coaching sessions. 
There can only be one agent per specific niche market in your area so make sure you get on the list right away. This will be on a first come first serve basis. So if two agents both... Continue reading ...
SEO Blogging Coach- For when blogging and SEO overwhelm you.
Sometimes it gets tough to balance all that you have to do in your business, life and family. When you first start on your blogging journey and start to understand and apply SEO steps to your blogging you need the time to do all of this. You have to make the time. Schedule it right into your daily planner. Make an appointment with yourself and don't let anything get you to cancel that appointment.
Since time is precious you may cons...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, January 14, 2011,
In :
SEO TIPS
How
do you know which keywords you should focus on and which keywords are
going to make your phone ring with a prospective client? 
The keywords you choose to use on
your blog and website should be determined by who you are speaking to
through your blog and website. This is called your niche market.
Niching brings a better return on your investment of time and money than generalizing.
Let's put keywords into perspective. Different
products and services require d... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, December 31, 2010,
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The stats are out. This year 41,000 real estate licensed agents dropped out of the business in Florida since the boom days when everyone and their mother, aunt, sister, brother neighbor was an agent. Just in the state of Florida. 
That is a lot of agents!
In the boom year of 2005 there were 144,174 agents.
That was up from just 118,092 in 2004. In the year 2000 there were
67,388 agents. I got licensed in Florida in 1996 a year after moving
here from Washington State where I was licens... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Thursday, December 30, 2010,
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2011 Schedule of SEO Events and More- By Coach Katerina LLC
We are excited to roll out
our new calendar of events for SEO Trainings, Expired Listing training,
Short Sale training and our new programs. 
Below the schedule here is a form
where you can check off the trainings that you would like to get in on
the loop about. This way you can get email notifications and reminders
of the events you are interested in.
January 12th, 2011 is SEO To The Top Q and A class for current members o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, December 3, 2010,
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These stats are for the state of Florida but I believe that they are going to be similar throughout most of the states.
The average Realtor® in 2009 in the state of Florida:
- Closed 8 transactions in 2009
- 56% of the Realtors® in Florida are women.
- 81% specialize in residential sales.
- 2/3 of the agents have websites.
- Half of the agents use social media.
- 1 out of 10 agents say they have a blog. ( But do they blog?)
- The median gross income of an agent was $34,400.
- The average agent is 54 year...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, November 23, 2010,
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SEO TIPS
Many small business owners, agents, consultants and marketers start their new website, look up their new keywords, get all excited and ready to get their domain name when suddenly they start hearing other people say,
"Well, good luck with that! All the good domains are taken already! All the dot coms are taken up!
Well, that is just not true.
Here is a little known secret- when agents drop out of the business they tend to forget about their domain names and their websites which means that eve... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Tuesday, October 19, 2010,
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Coach Katerina's Webinar and Call Schedule- Mark Your Calendars with these important events, times and dates for this week and next week.
Wednesday October 20- 3 p.m Eastern Time-. SEO EXTREME BootCamp Q and A call and overview of SEO EXTREME.
Thursday October 21- 12 p.m. Eastern Time- Marketing Yourself and Your Listings with QR Codes, sponsored by Realbird. I will also be going over how to use QR codes with Realbirds' new QR codes for listings.
Tuesday October 26- 3 p.m. Eastern Tim... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Thursday, October 14, 2010,
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SEO TIPS
Thanks to Realbird for being so generous to support us in hosting the QR webinar. You will see how we use realbird property searches with QR codes along with many other marketing strategies for QR codes.
We are excited to share with you exciting information and show you ways in which you can use QR codes to market yourself, your company and your listings with this trending marketing.
COST- FREE
Click on the URL below- this link will take you to the GotoWebinar registration page where yo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Monday, October 11, 2010,
In :
SEO TIPS
What is your BIG burning question about SEO?
We will try to answer as many questions as possible
on our Q and A call and give you an overview of
SEO EXTREME Bootcamp line up.
Hurry to get your Biggest Burning Question
turned in by going here to post your question:
MY BIGGEST BURNING QUESTION
Make sure you are also registered for the call
so you can hear your answer.
I will also answer the top 2 or 3 questions
here on our blog so make sure to subscribe
to this blog so you don't mi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Sunday, July 25, 2010,
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SEO TIPS
Linking Strategies are one of the most important aspects of your SEO plan. Google puts a lot of weight on the links that are pointing to your site. Each link to your site is like a vote for your site. Google gathers up these votes, counts them and from there determines where you fit in the indexed pages and how you should show up on the SERPS.
So while writing good content is the most important part of your plan, all the good content in the world is not going to surpass someone who has good c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Katerina Gasset on Friday, June 4, 2010,
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SEO TIPS
You will be getting one video webinar delivered to your email box each week for 9 weeks. This way you can watch and learn as often as you need. This also gives you one week to get your homework done before you next video arrives in your inbox. It is important to do your homework. You will be invited... Continue reading ...
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