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As a follow-up to Drew’s marketing your blog post, I thought I’d re-cap of some of the main points that I touched on during Wednesday’s Marketing Your Blog panel at Inman Real Estate Connect.
Moderator Joel Burslem kicked off the discussion with the question “how do real estate bloggers compete with major online real estate sites [...]

I know a few agents in the Portland area that are working to save the environment and cut paperwork by using a new service called DocuSign. We can all do our part in 2008 for our planet, and I think that online document signing could be a great first step. The legalities of [...]

Joomla is an open-source (free) content management system that you can use to setup the foundation for a website. In this day and age, having a website for your real estate business is essential and is an excellent opportunity to add a new source to your lead generation efforts.
Using Joomla can help you in [...]

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 [...]

As many agents know, one of the best ways to promote your blog, website or agent profile page is to obtain inbound links. For those of you new to link building, it can be a daunting and painful task! Lucky for you, I took some notes while building my own links. Below, I have provided [...]

The other day, Drew Meyers pointed me to a post in the Zillow forums where someone was asking some very interesting (and seemingly common) questions about IDX. The individual wanted to know what IDX essentially is and whether or not someone could create a program that could easily search across all real estate listings on [...]

As another year comes to an end, it’s always fun to look back and reflect on what happened, what we accomplished, where we went and so on. As a Geek, here’s my contribution. With no further adieu, here are the 2007 Top 10 Google searches…
Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007*:
1. iPhone: [...]

I agree with Marc Davison — THIS intro on Darren James’ website is catchy! Additionally, once you get past the intro and into the actual site, there is some cool AJAX (I think) technology behind the scenes that gives the site a web 2.0 feel. When I clicked the “View Darren’s Listings” link (green button [...]

There is a great video interview on Reachd with Matt Cutts, who is the head of Google’s webspam team.

There are lots of other great videos on Reachd TV.

There is a new Google API that might be of interest to some of you who are looking for a means to easily turn numeric data (such as real estate market statistics) on your site into something more visually appealing — the Google Chart API. In addition to venn diagrams and scatter plots, the API [...]

Rodney Bartlett of Reachd.com interviews Vanessa Fox of Ignition Partners (formally of Google.com and Zillow.com). The main question.. what would Vanessa do if she was a real estate agent?

Most agents have a website that is maintained by some agency. These vary from very boring templates where you have very little control, to sites that give you a wide range of control over every aspect of the site. The problem I have seen most with agents adding content to their websites is [...]