Can a couple of pages on a larger site work? Possibly. Probably depends on how competitive the search terms are.

Google “Fountain of the Sun” and my Phoenix Retirement Real Estate site is on the first page. I’d like to see it higher but I haven’t dedicated even a fraction of the time the site really could use outside of listings. But with a little more work, and less than what you’d need for a full-blown hyper local blog, I probably can get above the fold.

Very difficult question to answer John. Partly depends on how one defines “work best”. From a purely SEO perspective, I think adding pages on an existing blog (assuming it has some “authority”) would work better (or at least faster) than starting a separate blog.

On the other hand, there is much to be said for a “dedicated” neighborhood blog. It may be more initial work and time to get well ranked and establish readership, but once that hurdle was cleared, it might be ultimately more successful simply because it would attracted a very targeted readership.

What do you think would work best, a separate Anthem blog or a few Anthem pages on an already popular blog?

As for the neighborhoods – I know Mariana has also created separate blogs for different neighborhoods – I decided from the beginning to set them all in my one miamism blog with some static content (that google likes) and could updated content constantly, which I do.

Time management is a huge issue for me as well – so many ideas, so little time….and we still have to sell real estate.

But if I could read it, I’d mention the WP FAQ plugin I’ve played with a little here. It might be able to be used for your “wiki”. There is also a WP glossary plugin here, but I have not used it or looked at it at all.

I suspect there are plugins available for true wiki’s as well. I set up a wiki separately once from the blog and it was so overrun with spam that I took it down. With the interaction available on a blog , I’m not sure that a full-blown wiki adds all that much. I do like Jonathan’s glossary / wiki thingy though.

I think I already said it once – but I think your Wiki is a very cool idea! I won’t tell Jay or Russ, but I have thought about one for Indy. Like you I have more plans than time.

In this case, I just started typing. It’s not a pure wiki in that readers can’t add and edit their own content. I think that can be done through WordPress but that’s a little too large a can of worms for me to open right now.

For those who want to see something added (once I’m done with the main topics, that is), they’re welcome to send the suggestions through the comment form on the right side.