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BloodhoundBlog.net can map domains: Your free real estate weblog can look just like you’re hosting it yourself
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix, Arizona Real Estate,
Post Archive,
RSS FeedPosted: Thursday, December 11th, 2008, 8:44 pm MST
Category: Weblogging
It took some time to work out all the kinks, but we’ve got domain-mapping working on BloodhoundBlog.net.
What does that mean?
You can set up a free BloodhoundBlog.net weblog, say, something like myblog.BloodhoundBlog.net.
Then you can go to a domain registrar like Godaddy.com and register your own domain, perhaps MyOwnDomain.com. You don’t have to buy a hosting package or anything else, just the domain.
Then, with a little help from us, you can set up MyOwnDomain.com so that it displays myblog.BloodhoundBlog.net.
From the point of view of both your users and search engine spiders, your weblog is hosted at MyOwnDomain.com.
Here’s an example, a melancholy celebration of Dayton by Teri Lussier. The blog is built on BloodhoundBlog.net, but, because of domain-mapping, it looks like it lives on its own server.
WordPress.com charges $10 a year for domain-mapping. We’ll do it for free — with the stipulation that you really are a hard-working real estate blogger. If you’re really pounding out the content, we can help you customize your blog’s theme, too.
Between money work, web work and WordPress work, I’m coming and going, but we have a lot of cool announcements coming up. Stay tuned…
Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate, real estate marketing, technology
1 commentWhat’s Mu? Pulling unforeseen results out of BloodhoundBlog.net
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix, Arizona Real Estate,
Post Archive,
RSS FeedPosted: Tuesday, November 25th, 2008, 11:44 pm MST
Category: Weblogging
We launched BloodhoundBlog.net just a week and a day ago, and already WordPress-MultiUser is changing my approach to everything in the weblogging world.
First, just as a caveat: It’s a bear to set up. Because of BloodhoundBlog, we have an enormous amount of server horsepower, but I think it matters a great deal that we live on a dedicated server. We can customize the host to live the way we need it to live, and we command a lot of tech support attention from Hostgator.com — which has been invaluable.
But as with the discussion of FeedWordPress, living in the Mu universe leads to different ways of thinking.
An example: We’re wrestling with domain mapping right now, but, once we get it working, we will be able to put our affiliated vendors into their own blogs, running under their own domain names, in two wags of a BloodPuppy’s tail. If you think about the agony of setting up unique WordPress.org blogs, the upfront effort of getting WP-Mu to run will be handsomely repaid.
Likewise, both WordPress (dot org) and WP-Mu were upgraded to version 2.6.5 tonight. I already upgraded the BloodhoundBlog.net weblogs. And sometime between now and Sunday, I will get to upgrade a solid dozen WP.org blogs. Between now and the new year, most or all of those will be moving to a new WP-Mu installation.
Here’s the best bet: The ability to set up clone weblogs on demand will permit a very granular kind of hyper-local weblogging. This suggests to me one or two more WP-Mu installations, strictly for real estate purposes.
And here’s a great big what’s more: Give me another week with this software and let’s see what else I can come up with…
Technorati Tags: blogging, disintermediation, real estate, real estate training, technology
No commentsA couple of bug fixes…
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix, Arizona Real Estate,
Post Archive,
RSS FeedPosted: Tuesday, November 25th, 2008, 11:54 am MST
Category: Weblogging
Cheryl Johnson discovered that the Image Uploader was going 404 on the actual images.
This was a wicked ugly problem, but, in solving it, we also solved the issue with alternative forms of permalinks.
I turned off the Flash version of the Image Uploader, because, was with WordPress.org blogs, it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
In any case, you should be fine to upload images with the Image Uploader, and you should be able to permalink your posts however you like.
No commentsReal Estate Shows and BloodhoundBlog.net
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix, Arizona Real Estate,
Post Archive,
RSS FeedPosted: Saturday, November 22nd, 2008, 9:30 am MST
Category: Weblogging
If you use the Real Estate Shows brand of virtual tours, and if you want to embed one or more of those tours into a BloodhoundBlog.net weblog, use the shorter “script” version of the embeddable code. The longer “embed” version will not work here, alas.
No commentsThe Unchained Melody to prove that YouTube embedding is working
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix, Arizona Real Estate,
Post Archive,
RSS FeedPosted: Tuesday, November 18th, 2008, 6:51 pm MST
Category: Weblogging
WP-Mu don’t like embeds, but now we’re allowing for most video formats:
2 commentsIntroducing Bloodhoundblog.net, free WordPress weblogs for real estate professionals
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix, Arizona Real Estate,
Post Archive,
RSS FeedPosted: Saturday, November 15th, 2008, 6:45 pm MST
Category: Weblogging
Say hello to BloodhoundBlog.net, free WordPress Multi-user weblogs for real estate professionals.
We talked about doing this in Orlando, at the scenius on Swallow Hill Road. Where we started was with the idea of WordPress blogs for the CyberProfessionals to practice on.
We saw that the right system could serve the same function for any novice bloggers — including all of the folks on Active Rain looking to make the leap to WordPress weblogging.
And BloodhoundBlog.net can also be a space for BloodhoundBlog Unchained instructors to help their students get their homework together before coming to Phoenix.
Will this be your last word in real estate weblogging? It can be, but that strikes me as a poor idea. What we’re offering is a free weblogging platform where real estate professionals can learn and grow, ultimately to go off and set up their own WordPress.org weblogs.
And you had better know this is an Unchained weblogging world: You can import content from a host of blogging platforms, and everything you do on BloodhoundBlog.net is easily exported when you’re ready to move on.
If you want to go ahead and get started, just go to BloodhoundBlog.net and set up a new blog. It’s fast, easy and fun.
Still here? Who should set up a BloodhoundBlog.net weblog?
- Stone newbies. If you want to learn to weblog, you might as well start with the best software, among people who can help you develop the best possible practices.
- Intermediate bloggers. If you’ve been toying with Active Rain or with real estate forums, it might be time to put away childish things. The work you do with us will transfer easily to a full-blown WordPress.org weblog.
- Kindred spirits. If you want to build a community of like minds, the price of doing so here can’t be beat.
- Adhocracy activists. A weblog is the perfect means of coordinating, for example, the Wine-Tasting Realtors of Biloxi.
- Teachers of lessons profound and arcane — starting with the slave-drivers of BloodhoundBlog Unchained in Phoenix.
How can we do this? We have the horsepower — dawgpower — that’s how. Even so, we’re not letting you all the way off the leash. There are plug-ins, but only at the macro level. You won’t be able to install you own, although I’ll listen to appeals for good plug-ins that work well in the WP-Mu environment. Same for themes. We have about 15 to start with, but you should feel free to recommend more. They’re not risk-free — Brian Brady has already crashed one — but they’re less risky than plug-ins. In a BloodhoundBlog.net weblog, you’re limited to naming your posts Bloodhound-style, with numbers. When you move your content, you can do what you want, and keyword-based naming should help you beat your old posts in the search engines. Finally, you’ll be constrained by our Terms of Service, which basically say, “Don’t be a jackass.”
We’ve talked about starting a forum, and this is something we may do, eventually. But a weblog creates its own management structure — “for each one spot shall prove Beloved over all” — plus we think it is the best kind of social media marketing most real estate professionals can do. BloodhoundBlog.net is a place where you can learn to do it for free.
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