Active Rain is a community site for real estate professionals, mostly agents, but other service providers, too. It includes community discussions, blogs and comments, and best of all a Referral Exchange.

Sort of a cross between eBay and Lending Tree, Referral Exchange lets you post details about the service you're seeking and lets eligible agents make their case for you to use them. You (or we, on your behalf) of course can also respond to referral requests. Someone in Akron is relocating to your area -- their seller agent asks if anyone wants to help her buy her new home. On your behalf we respond with your details and hopefully win you that buyer.

But you'll get even more out of Active Rain when you take advantage of their blogging features. We will create and post to your Active Rain blog for you 2-3 times per week, boosting your inbound links to your company website and giving you better search engine results and more Web traffic. Blogging on Active Rain also makes you visible to other agents in and out of the area who might be looking for someone like you to take their lead. Finally, the kind of local, unique, relevant content we'll post is the kind of substance search engines will find and help you be perceived as your area's local real estate expert.

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