For your real estate marketing, you probably know that you get more online traffic to your real estate website, blog, and social media pages when you use the same keywords in your page titles and text that people use in their online searches. But… how do you know what keywords your prospective real estate clients are actually [...]
Yesterday I had to call ValueWeb to help out a client who needed his domain name pointed to a different server. During my over half an hour on hold (starting out as caller number 44 – the horror!) I was reminded of how important it is to choose a reliable company for domain names and [...]
When you’re blogging for real estate it’s often interesting to quote a news article or some text from another realtor’s blog in order to demonstrate a point. But when does a quote cross the line and become copyright infringement? Here’s a good article about copyright law that explains in detail what you need to watch [...]
Do you hate your real estate website? If you’re like 80% of the real estate agents I talk to the answer is a resounding “Yes!” Here’s why you should consider making your next website a nice, clean blog-based site. 1. Your Blog Can Look Just Like a Website A blog is really any website designed on [...]
I was cruising around the Yahoo real estate section the other day and stumbled upon an interesting research study about how home buyers and sellers choose real estate agents. I definitely think it’s worth your time to read, especially since it’s pretty recent, from April of 2008. The report is called “Online Engagement Affects Agent Selection Process” [...]
I’m trying out the Smart Youtube plugin for WordPress, by Vladimir Prelovac. It makes it super simple to customize the size of the Youtube player, add borders and change border colors. It also makes the code simpler to copy and paste over, since you just use the straight link and add a ‘v’ after ‘http’ in the Youtube [...]
Jill Olkoski of Aldebaran Web Design in Seattle just did a great post on her blog about when backlinks to your website are useless. Here’s the link to the post, which I highly recommend reading: http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/when-is-a-backlink-worth-nothing-to-your-websites-search-engine-ranking/ A backlink, by the way, is when another site links back to your site. Google is really trying to [...]
It’s been 6 weeks since I launched my ‘daily topic’ theme for blog posts as a strategy for posting on this blog regularly. As some of you have noticed, I was cruising along pretty well until December 31, when I inexplicably fell off the wagon. OK, not completely inexplicably – in fact, you may relate [...]