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…
More and more real estate agents are using self-hosted WordPress blogs these days, as I do on all my sites so far. Here’s something you should know about how to choose the best permalink naming structure. (The permalink is how the URL will look for that blog post. For example, for this post the URL (permalink) will read “http://www.toolsforrealestate.com/best-permalink-structure-for-blog-posts.)…
Those of you keeping track of my posts have noticed that I’ve been struggling a bit to keep to the posting schedule I planned out a few weeks ago — although it is getting coughed up, just on the late side.’ For the record, having a specific topic for each day has helped me post…
If you have a real estate blog you probably want to occasionally post photo galleries and slideshows of your listings. There’s a great free WordPress blog plugin called NextGen Gallery that lets you do just that. Considering how many great features it has I was actually surprised at how relatively simple it was for me to set…
The other day I was helping out the irrepressible Natalie Danielson of www.ClockHours.com with her domains, and it reminded me to post these tips on domain name buying. (By the way, in addition to teaching and selling clock hours online Natalie is also a stand-up comic, and if you ever hear her laugh you’ll know why…
One of the top 10 most emailed articles in the New York Times a couple of months ago was a post by David Pogue, their tech blogger, called Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User. I read it and couldn’t believe some of the things I didn’t know myself, even though I’m a confirmed techy. …
OK, it’s confession time here at the Tools For Real Estate blog. I was horrified this morning when I logged on and realized it’s been over a month since my last post. This is truly insane, because I think of things I want to post on here pretty much every day, but something seems to…
These days there are some great online services that make it easy to build web forms that you can link to from your website, blog or emails. One of my favorites is Formspring, due to its ease of use, friendly interface and multiple pricing options (including a free version.) Just to be clear, it’s MUCH…
If you’re a bit of a techie you should know about a great site I was referred to by Seattle pet photographer Jamie Plughoeft (you can check out her excellent dog and cat photos at www.cowbelly.com.) It’s called Dynamic Drive, and you can find javascript and dynamic html script to create all kinds of cool…
