Do you check your website logs? Well, many real estate agents that I’ve met don’t. So when questions of hits, pages, and sessions come up, guess what? They didn’t have a clue. Read on and you may very quickly be ahead of most of your peers.
There are two goals with this post. Or, at least, [...]
Getting started with search engine optimization
Many SEO firms that I’ve dealt with (yes, the same ones that call at 2:00pm on Friday afternoon!) seem to make search engine optimization or high search engine ranking an obscure lofty goal that only they can achieve. Granted, it can be very time consuming, but it’s still very doable. [...]
If you haven’t lived under a rock for the last few months, you’ve probably heard of MySpace, Friendster, and other social networking websites. Maybe you’re a member, maybe you’re not. Well now there’s a social networking place just for real estate professionals. It’s called ActiveRain.
It’s a completely free service that works more like a real [...]
Maybe I need to surf through the Google Lab and Product pages more often. It looks like they recently made a number of new releases including yesterday’s release of Google Earth 4.
This new version will turn the heads of a few more people now that it’s supported on both Mac and Linux. It also has [...]
While working on a mapping project, I learned that the Google Maps API now offers geocoding. This is huge. I’m not sure if it was ever announced, but Google geocoding is there!
Until this recent discovery, I used either Batch Geocode or Yahoo! for geocoding. So in order to use Google Maps, I’d geocode the data [...]
I’ve been accepted as a beta tester for Ether’s pay-per-call technology. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, see my previous post on Ether. It’s pretty neat stuff. You can set prices to per minute, per hour, or per call. You can also choose different rates for the initial time period and the extended [...]
I’ve been sitting on a few domains and have decided to put them up on the auction block. They were picked up for various reasons. Most have not been used at all, while a few are gently used. However, I can guarantee that the domain will be in mint condition on delivery.
If [...]
Wordpress 2.0.3 has just been released. I didn’t notice anything major in this release, but you should still check it out to see if there might be a fix for any issues you might be having. There’s also some security fixes. The main issues in this release:
Small enhancements for performance
Fix for importing from Moveable Type [...]
Posting real estate listings to multiple classifieds can sometimes be quite a chore. Postlets (Thanks Dewita) is a great free way to simplify that task.
With “just a few clicks” you can create and post a classified ad for your property to places such as:
backpage.com
craigslist
EdgeIO
Google Base
Live Deal
Oodle
Vast
PropSmart
And you can do all of this without knowing any [...]