Cville Real Estate Blogging is Self-Promoting LAMENESS

Posted by Thor on May 3rd, 2007 6 Comments

So, I was doing my morning searching on Charlottesville (believe me, I do it every day for 3 hours) and you know what I realized? 

Charlottesville Real Estate Agents Think It’s Really Cool to Blatantly Self-Promote Themselves

If the team of cVillain were to blatantly self promote ourselves in the same likeness of our real estate brethren, a sample post would look like this:

Perezhilton.com has nothing on us.  We are #1 blog to go to.  NOW IS THE TIME TO READ.  Advertisers, send us billions.  We like your family.  Trust us as your adviser in your blog reading.  Blog reading is at an all time high.  cVillain.com is super-fantastic fabulous.  At least give it a look.  You can call us at 1 (800) Friendly Blog.

Ok, you get the point (or I’m not funny).  But seriously, here is our mini-review of the real-estate blogging community.

Roy Wheeler “Market Insights”:It should be called “We don’t care what you think, use our agents.” Titles like “Now is Time to Buy” and “First Time Home Buyers” speak for themselves.  Very Lame.  The site doesn’t even let you comment on posts.  Marketing-blah.  WHY DO THEY EVEN NEED A BLOG?  They even take the opportunity to tell self-sellers of properties that they are IDIOTS.  Good job Roy, way to blatantly self-promote, ignore the community and sound like a jerk.  You are super lame.

Gerry Russell:  It appears Gerry isn’t as bad at self-promotion.  She actual puts informative links on the blog, but honestly, let’s try to be a little more personal.  Who is doing the website management?  Your 10 year old neighbor?  The site looks worse than than that mutilated organ pile on 250 from the freshest deer auto-assassination.  Gerry, you aren’t lame or cool.  You are right in the middle.  Personalize your blog.  Anyone can go around and Google links to CAAR and other real estate posts. 

Jim Duncan:  Your site is ugly as sin, but I do think you actually post relevant information.  The problem is you are trying to pagerank yourself by having different sites that seem unrelated to each other.  We know you like Crozet but seriously, combine all that stuff into one.  Blatant page ranks are so 2006.

Cville Area Real Estate:  The self-proclaimed “Charlottesville’s most insightful real estate blog” really isn’t that insightful. Mad points (not really) for securing an RSS feed from the other website, Unless, of course you mean long, poorly written accounts of taking really easy continuing education classes in real estate.  It isn’t clear to me why “anything worth doing is worth doing right; and anything worth doing right is going to be hard” is bold, but maybe someone can enlighten me.  Your blog posts are really boring.  Maybe you should change your name to “Charlottesville’s most pointless blog.”  You rank slightly lame, but that’s only because Roy Wheeler is so bad.

Cville Rentals:  Glad you can copy the NY Times “All the News that’s Fit to Print.”  Very witty.  Did you go to college for that?  Sorry, those are low blows, I know, but it’s because I actually like your blog.  Maybe it’s because you are about rentals, not purchases?

That’s all folks. If I missed anyone’s site, please let me know!

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6 Responses to “Cville Real Estate Blogging is Self-Promoting LAMENESS”

  1. 03 May 2007 at 7:29 am1Jim Duncan said:

    Golly. What a roundup. Visually, how would you redesign my site? Would you mind recommending some three column Wordpress themes that would look better?

  2. 03 May 2007 at 7:40 am2Thor said:

    Jim, hmmm. Well, I like K2, K3, MistyLook and others. I get an information overload when I go to your site.. I think the trend now is simplicity and if you can clean things up then your site would be much better looking.

    Seriously though, no complaints on content. You have good content.

    Good ideas are here: http://themes.wordpress.net/?cats%5B%5D=3&sortby=dlcount&order=DESC&andor=OR&submit=Show .

  3. 03 May 2007 at 7:41 am3lilith said:

    The alternative:
    Please call us. Our office refrigerator doesn’t shut, and we had to fire our receptionist Delores because there weren’t any calls or e-mails except wrong numbers and the Jimmy John’s delivery guy, and spam porn sites (which we kind of are okay with). We like everyone– overly controlling moms, people with mullets, drug addicts, people who eat spam. You really don’t have to use JUST us– if you want to slut yourself out to a couple of agents, we’ll totally understand. We may even buy you flowers, because we like it when you play hard-to-get. Okay, I guess that’s all because we can’t afford any more lines in the Classifieds. Call us. I mean, if you want to. Or whatever. No seriously you should.

  4. 03 May 2007 at 7:41 am4Jim Duncan said:

    Thanks - I’m always trying to improve and evolve.

  5. 10 May 2007 at 2:12 pm5Daniel Rothamel said:

    Thanks for the links. Actually, the blog is The Real Estate Zebra (realestatezebra.com). CvilleAreaRealEstate.com was the title for my original blog, but I now use that URL for my personal site. That is why I use the RSS feed from the Zebra on that site.

    Interesting run-down. I’m always interested in what people think, and suggestions are always welcomed. I’m up for improvement wherever I can.

  6. 03 Aug 2007 at 3:41 pm6michael said:

    Thanks for your insights. We are new at this and I agree there is room for improvement. Hopefully in the future, you will give us a better review.

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