How to Add Your Blog to MapQuestLocal.com and drive traffic to your blogs FOR FREE
Mapquest.com is a website that we all of us know use to get driving directions to our favorite local restaurants,church,schools,shops,stores,gas stations,movie theaters etc-(I feel a Localism blog coming on-LOL).
I'll rather be at a Local Silver Spring Md Movie Theater watching a good movie right about now. But instead I decided that I am going to finally write this blog for the 195,991 members on this site.
Since people use mapquest.com to find directions to their favorite local places. Wouldn't you want them to do the same trying to use mapquestlocal.com to find their favorite local real estate agent-YOU on your local real estate blog? OF COURSE. Who doesn't. And imagine that kind of traffic that we will get if we write about our local real estate market reports or blogs on our favorite local places? ONLINE TRAFFIC JAM.
Anyway With Mapquest collector, you can now add your blog feed to MapQuest Local so that it will appear in the list of blogs for your location. Here it goes:
- Go to http://local.mapquest.com/ and scroll down the the Blogs section.
- Click Add Your Blog.
The MapQuest Content Collector page appears.
- If your blog is not yet GeoTagged, click GeoTagging Your Content for instructions on how to GeoTag in your specific blogging tool.
- Click Manage My Content on the left side of the page.
- Click the My Blogs tab.
- Click Add a Blog.
- Copy and paste your blog URL into the Blog URL field.
- Click Find My RSS Feed URL
- Select the Related Categories for your blog.
- Click Update Preview to see a preview of how your blog will appear on MapQuest Local.
- Click Publish Blog.
UPDATE: I have e-mailed the people at Mapquest.com. So hopefully they will respond. I am having the same problems too as far as trying to log in. Hope everything works out.
The MapQuest Content Collector page appears.
Awesome. . .Thanks!
Preferred Properties Land & Homes-You are very welcome. Hope you had a very productive and successful week. Have a great weekend.
Thank you. I'm new to this blog stuff.....I'm giving this a try.....
Lanre,
thanks for the information. I have gone to http://local.mapquest.com and have signed up an account. However, I am having a major problem with the fact that Victoria, BC Canada's information is all mixed up with Victoria, TX info. I have sent an emal to Mapquest and asked them to sort it out.
Thanks again. I'm sure will get it working son!
Great tip, Lanre. Thanks.
Lanre,
This is awesome. I used to use mapquest all the time. I switched to googlemaps because of the iphone app. I need to revisit mapquest...
Steve
Wow im just dipping my toes into the blogging pool and I really appreciate this post. Thanks
Lanre, I did not know about the link to the Mapping tool. Often in blogs we put the map there but not the other way around. VERY cool. You stay on top of all this well for us....
wow, Lanre.... I did know about this.. this one should be featured.... so that everyone could get their blog out there. Great post
Donna Paul- Long Island Home Specialist Suffolk and Nassau County (Keller Williams Realty Greater Nassau)-I hope it gets featured. Please help me get it featured by hitting the suggest button. Thanks Donna. Have a great weekend.
Gary Woltal - Assoc. Broker REALTOR® SFR Dallas Ft. Worth (Keller Williams Realty)-Gary if I was as half tech savvy as you I will be alright. Great to hear from you. Have a great weekend.
Michele Cadogan (Fillmore Real Estate)-You're welcome Michele. By the way welcome to Active Rain.
Chain Real Estate Investments & Mortgage, Steve & Joel Chain-Google Maps is the best of course. But I think Mapquestlocal can make you more of a local expert. Great to hear from you Steve and Joel.
Roger Johnson, Realtor - Hickory NC Real Estate (CENTURY 21 American Homes)-You are very welcome Roger. Have a great weekend.
Ted Tyrrell - Victoria's Neighborhood Professional (DFH Real Estate Ltd.)-Hope they get it right so they can help you get more traffic to your blogs. Have a great weekend.
Shar Giard, CRS, GRI, CDPE (REMAX Equity Group )-That's great. Hope it helps you drive more traffic to your blogs. Have a great weekend.
Excellent idea Lanre. Mapquest is using a similar system to Outside.in You may want to check that one out as well:)
Hi Lanre, This is great, thanks for sharing this! I'll have to come back to your instructions later today and see if I can get it to work. Hope you have a terrific week Lanre!
I just came across your post - thanks so much for posting this. Right now, I'm having trouble signing in with Mapquest, perhaps their server is down, but as soon as I can, I'll follow up with this.
Great tip, but for some reason, I am not able to sign in to mapquest. Thanks!