St. Louis Real Estate - Off Topic - The Tomato Tribute

WOW. . . what a trip, from green on the vine to a ribbon at the fair, the “St. Louis Real Estate” fair, no less.

Our blogging experiment started sometime last January with a lot of research on the web that, fortunately for us, found it’s way to a blogging zealot named Jim Cronin at the “Real Estate Tomato”. My first impression was that he was a fast talking guy with all the answers, I was soon to find out that he was a fast talking guy with all the answers and MORE.

The trip was everything that Jim said it would be and he supplied the encouragement when we thought we were wasting our time and not making any progress. We wanted our blog to provide timely and useful information for consumers across the entire St. Louis real estate spectrum. We started posting in March and really struggled through the first 4 months. Then we started making progress in some of the minor keyword searches. . . but we wanted the whole ~~enchilada~~ tomato. . . St. Louis Real Estate.

Holy Tomato, sometime in early November we were page ranked in Google (four out of ten) and recently are page one, number four, when searching “St Louis Real Estate” using Google.

Our sincere thanks to Jim Cronin and the Tomato Team for coming through with everything they promised and MORE. Thanks Jim, Jason and Molly and the entire team for helping us stay the course and giving us the tools and encouragement along the way.

Doug and Art
stlouisrealestatevoice.com
Keller Williams Realty Southwest

Tags: Real+Estate+Tomato, St+Louis+Real+Estate

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Glad to read your comments!

I just got off the phone from talking with Rob Saxe about Tomato Blogs. He had already taken a look at my TypePad blog, which I started in late August. He was not a hard sell type person, in fact originally he said I might want to just stick with what I have.

As our conversation continued and he got a little more information out of me (I wasn’t hiding anything, just not saying the right things). He discovered that I have good search engine results and I am getting leads from my main website, but not as many good quality leads as I would like. He decided to take a look at my main website as well as my blog. He’s going to do some analysis and get back to me on Monday to help me determine whether I have a website problem or if it may be something else.

Whether I end up with a Tomato Blog or not, I want to add to your tribute - Customer Service

1) Quick response to my inquiry
2) Honesty about what I may or may not need
3) Willing to take a deeper look at what I have

Wonderful way to do business!

Comment by Betty Byrnes — November 23, 2007 #