The outstanding real estate "social network" ActiveRain has just held it's own version of a Blog Carnival. For those that don't know of ActiveRain, it's a social network for real estate professionals. You can build a profile (with one-way links to your website and/or blog!), participate in forums, contact other network members and they have a great blogging platform that is very active. The … [Read more...]
Howling FOR Zillow…
by on November 3, 2006
Did I read this right?? Greg Swann over at the BloodhoundBlog has a post titled "DEFENDING ZILLOW.COM"?!? Have the cows come home? Is hell freezing over?? Greg has not been shy about saying what he thinks of Zillow's Automated Valuation Method (AVM) -- and I'm not about to spend an hour linking to every one of his Zillowish posts. Here is the "main attraction" For more, just read his blog, … [Read more...]
OK, So I’m an Idiot. I Don’t Get Typepad Trackbacks
by on October 31, 2006
I'll admit it. I can't figure out trackbacks in blogs running on Typepad. Is it just me? Am I really this dense? If I link to a fellow WordPress blog, the link and a little snippet just magically pops up in that WP blog comment. I do nothing other than make an active link to a blog post. (I assume this only works if the blog author has "allow pings" enabled. But why wouldn't you?) Typepad … [Read more...]
Google Page Rank – Sometimes it’s a Joke…
by on October 7, 2006
Google Page Rank. I swear nothing sparks more conversation among web/blogheads than that little green bar in the browser. Google recently "updated" PR, and of course that's got people talking. In reality, PR is continuously updated, but the Toolbar PR indicator is only updated every 3 - 4 months. (And before some SEO "wizard" jumps all over me, I don't just make this stuff up. Google's own Matt … [Read more...]
Template Sites: The Good; The Bad; and The Ugly
by on September 2, 2006
I've probably been asked a hundred times some variation of the question, "Can you have a successful real estate web site using one of the template providers, or is a custom solution the only answer?" The short answer is there are decent template sites and you do not have to have a custom site to get somewhere. The long answer is, of course, much more more involved. There are literally dozens of … [Read more...]
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