Blogging category archives

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 [...]

Are you an agent looking for marketing advice? If so, International Listings has put out a list of the “Top 50 Real Estate Marketing Bloggers” worth checking out. It breaks out marketing blogs by type — general marketing, internet marketing, coaches, development properties, and marketing tools.
Thanks to International Listings for including GeekEstate Blog on the [...]

The first thing I learned after trying to Jott to Word Press, is that it goes live!  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out my last post on Jott.  After I Jotted, I went over to my computer and saw that my new post was already up.  It didn’t place my Jott [...]

So, this is my first attempt to use the Jott function in my list Jawbone to [...]. Basically, I set it up to– I setup a contact as the WordPress function and I just down(?) dragged(?) and it says if you wanna Jott and I say WordPress and now it’s probably all of these I’ve [...]

The 70th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live over at the Arizona Real Estate Notebook.

ActiveRain, the “social network” for real estate professionals, has announced they are close to rolling out “Outside Blogs”.
Outside Blogs takes the ActiveRain blogging platform outside the confines of the ActiveRain network, allowing the 60,000+ members of the network to have a blog outside of the ActiveRain network.
Many in the RE.net see AR as a “training [...]

Do you understand blogging? Like, really understand it? If not, don’t worry — you’re not alone. Here’s a video from the Common Craft show that makes blogging simple to understand.

[via Realivent Blog]

Blogging is one of the primary activities associate with real estate web 2.0 and a vital means of creating community, according to Brian Boero of 1000Watt Consulting in his post-NAR interview on Inman TV interview with Joel Burselm.

While Blogging can be a powerful tool, we are noticing that without adherence to a set of standards [...]

Google updated its Google Reader feed reader today yesterday.
One change I’ve been waiting for is the ability to drag-and-drop feeds into different folders. My feed reader list is pushing the 300 mark, and it’s vital (for me) to organize those feeds in some way. Now I can easily move feeds between folders, and even more [...]

So you’re driving to an appointment, trying to finally eat lunch at 4pm and you still have to send 14 emails before the end of the day and you’re behind on this week blog….what do you do? You sign up for Jott. Jott is still in it’s Beta form, but it’s public and [...]

Here’s a site for those of you bloggers who want to

[via Realivent Blog]

Aaron Wall has released today The Blogger’s Guide to SEO.
Wall is one of the world’s foremost authorities on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). His eBook, The SEO Book is well written, and highly regarded in the SEO community.
SEO in real estate weblogging is important. But it’s not the cure for everything. Real estate blogging in particular [...]