Posts by David Gibbons

NAR Social Media update with Todd Carpernter

By: David Gibbons Zillow.com | September 18, 2009

I caught up with Todd Carpenter in Miami at Real Estate barcamp this week.

This is a brain teaser for the SEO geeks. Most SEO decisions require a trade-off and this one has me in analysis paralysis so I thought I’d ask a few friends for their advice. The question is this; is Zillow’s Blog more useful to Zillow on its own domain or on the zillow.com domain? Here [...]

Here’s a humorous look at blogging and copyright. Swallow your coffee first and then click through to this blog post by Faye Hendry. Faye’s blog tells you repeatedly that she’s a christian but that fact only adds to the irony of the image Mike Mueller uploaded in the place of the one she stole from his [...]

We have a great view from our offices in downtown Seattle. This Saturday I set up my digital camera to take a series of time lapse photographs to record a sunset before the grey clouds return for the winter. This video is the very rough result of my first experiment with time lapse photography: As [...]

Syndicating listings to 3rd party websites should be part of your SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. It’s a simple formula; you allow your listings to be published on other websites (comparison of who sends real estate listings to what portals) in exchange for a link back to your site. Link building, as the SEOs call [...]

This morning, I was fortunate to meet Gary Vaynerchuk, star of WineLibraryTV (and, interestingly, a top-20-to-30-most-followed-person-on-twitter.) Gary is a web video rock-star and his insights on personal branding and Web 2.0 marketing opportunities are seemingly endless. This video is just 3 minutes long; you can imagine how many tips he packed into the hour he [...]

5 SEO tips for business blogging

By: David Gibbons Zillow.com | May 16, 2008

Here’s some more great advice by the SEO-guru’s at SEOmoz. If you are considering adding a blog to your website, watch this short video to avoid making some common SEO mistakes. Note: the audio on this video is not so good but it gets better. SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday-Blogging for Higher Rankings from Scott Willoughby on [...]

Images and SEO

By: David Gibbons Zillow.com | December 27, 2007

A picture may be worth a thousand words to you and I but an image is meaningless to search engines until you describe it to them. In this simple video, Matt Cutts from google explains how to use the alt tag to ensure that search engines index your image content. If you’re trying to lift [...]

I’m about to jump on a plane for Vegas and the NAR conference. This is my first visit to Sin City (yes, ever!) but it’s unfortunately also going to be a quick one – home tomorrow – things are busy (especially without Drew around.) Before I leave though, I wanted to remind all the geeks [...]

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