Hi, This Matt Dunlap, the community manager for RateWindow blog and the Transparent Mortgage Network fan page on Facebook. Thank you for your interest in becoming an author at RateWindow.
My job is not only to make sure the blog grows, but that every author on the RateWindow blog get outstanding promotion. It’s a tough job, but you’ll see that the authors on RateWindow get in front of many, many eyeballs and score very well in the major search engines.
If you are already convinced you want to join our team. Please register for an account and start blogging!
Here are a few stats:
- RateWindow blog targets “Transparent Mortgage Services” and all the associated keywords.
- Currently PR 3
- Traffic Growth over the last 4 months has been over 40%/month
- Top referral sites: Twitter.com, Homegain.com, Activerain.com, Google (organic)
- Consumer focused. RateWindow blog is not a B2B blog between mortgage brokers, or a “how to use social media” blog wrapped in a mortgage domain name. Our blog provides information to the consumer from industry professionals so they understand that there are currently many ways to get a mortgage with peace of mind.
What we do when you blog with us.
- When you submit a blog post, we make sure that all SEO is in place. We might edit it to make sure the targeted keywords are hit. We will not publish any article without the authors concent. Good SEO is where it all starts when trying to build a voice and build a following.
- As soon as the post is published, we hit all the major syndication websites. A term known as “polination.” We spread the seeds of your post which is turn get picked up by many, many other people to spread the word. These sites include Twitter (multiple twitter accounts will re-tweet), activerain.com, stumbleupon.com, reddit.com, transparentmortgagenetwork.com, delicious.com… plus many others.
- We provide a full profile page, in which you can display all your business contact information, and create a lifestream which can aggregate all your other blog posts from any website. Basically, your content follows you everywhere.
- Detailed analytic reports available. We will notify you when you get a large spike in traffic from a specific source like digg.com.
Here is a brief overview of our guidelines, with some highlights:
- We are looking for mortgage industry professionals to write educational, relevant posts for borrowers (not for other industry pros). Moving away from business to business mortgage language and providing informational articles that the consumer can understand and use to make smarter mortgage decisions. This blog’s target audience is the mortgage shopper. Suitable posts for RateWindow blog should address news, opinion and advice that is relevant and useful to borrowers.
- When you first make a blogger account with RateWindow.com, you will have an author role. The author role allows you to write blog articles which will be moderated before they get posted. After a couple successful blog posts, your account will be upgrade and thereafter when you write a blog post it will immediately be published.
- RateWindow.com blogs provide RSS feeds for each author which allows the author to take their content with them. The content can be used on third party sites, but if word for word duplication is used, there must be a link back to the original blog post at RateWindow.com
- Please no duplicate content. We take great lengths to promote each blog post to Twitter, Facebook, ActiveRain, etc… We promote original content and you will benefit greatly from the amount of work that we put into marketing and promotion.
- As a general rule, shorter is better when it comes to post length. And, always strive to include relevant links and an image with your posts.
- All accounts need to set up an account at gravatar.com. We use the profile image that is established at gravatar.com email address for all author images at RateWindow.com
After reviewing all of our guidelines, if you are still interested, please register for an account and we welcome you aboard. If you have any questions, feel free to use the RateWindow contact form located here.
Thank you
Matt Dunlap – RateWindow Community Manager
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