The real estate blog.

As some of you may know, I’ve been submitting articles to various real estate and financial related blog carnivals around the web. A few weeks ago, I hosted the Carnival of Real Estate Investing and had a lot of fun with it. The purpose of these carnivals is to promote other blogs and obtain related inbound links for SEO reasons. Usually there is a judging component where the blog host selects the post or posts they like the best. Sometimes there are rankings all the way down. Sometimes only the top posts are mentioned. Sometimes all of them are.

Last week, I won a blog carnival for the first time. The COREI was hosted at the Bloodhound blog and their panel of judges bestowed the honor for my post on refinancing creative financing. With this win came a new level of exposure I was previously unaware of. The Real Estate Guide produces a list of all the Carnival winners. The nicest part was finding additional Carnivals I can submit to.

Pittsburgh Homes Daily which is famous for their list of 500 top real estate blogs and the real estate blog SEO contest hosted the Carnival of Real Estate last week. In their Valentine’s Day theme, my post on Why It’s Different This Time - Part 2, won a “box of chocolates.”

New blog carnivals come out tomorrow. I’ll be hosting the Carnival of Real Estate next Monday.

I’m still trying to find contributors to my upcoming Carnival of Utah. Content should be focused on Utah, but it doesn’t need to be real estate related. I have a website name reserved and I’ll get it registered with the blog carnival index soon, but I still need additional contributors. If you’re interested in contributing a post about living in Utah, please email me - nigel (at) integrityloans.com. While it helps to have a blog of your own, if you just want to contribute a post and have it tagged with your byline, I’m happy to oblige.