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Facebook Likes take over FB Shares- So fix your pics- WordPress Plugin
You may or may not have heard that Facebook has been transitioning Facebook Share functionality to “Likes” as the preferred mechanism to share content with your friends on Facebook, cool. While many of us saw this coming some time ago, we still leaned to Facebook Share for managing this process as it gave users a choice as to the image ...
Blogging: A Time Suck or Sweet Sunshine?
Time Suckage Blogging isn’t the Holy Grail, a magical Silver Bullet or a Savior. For some, it really is a time-suck, a distraction or a poor idea. For others, it’s like Sunshine for Sweet Success. Sunshine for Sweet Success Think of everything you do to attract, uncover and discover listing and selling opportunities as your personal real-estate-business-solar-system. You and your ...
How You Can Make A Video Blog – cheap, quick & easy
A while ago I decided that I wanted a web site that was just for my videos. I have video embedded in blog posts on my main real estate site, but I wanted a clean looking page where people could go and just watch my content. A video-blog, or vlog, as the cool kids call it. As of yesterday, I have one: ...
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Intelligent Design: The Evolution of WordPress
Wikipedia describes WordPress as “ an open source blog publishing application and can be used for basic content management”. At WordPress.org the description reads, “WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.” These two descriptions probably articulate the two most common perspectives on what WP is and does. With the WordPress one though, ...
Quality Content Plus Site Navigation = Success
Man, don’t I feel stupid! While in the process of constructing a new website and going into some detail about the importance of preliminary planning and information architecture in this AG series on building the site, I was doing some research on statistics and came across the Dept of Education’s National Center for Educational Statistics. I discovered they have a ...
Managing Content For The Multi-Tasking Visitor
When it comes to an easy to use out-of-the-box content management system (CMS), WordPress is about as good as it gets. For the ready-to-go blogger, it’s a no-brainer and reason why WP is the most popular open source software ever. But what if you want to power a real estate lead generation monster with it? For the basis of a ...
Websites For Dummies – Is That Really The Goal?
When it comes to options for a web site, agents and brokers have numerous options at literally every price point. I wanted to see how many options I could find using a range of search queries spanning novice to expert. This one is my new favorite: Build My Own Website For Dummies Now I don’t think you are dumb at ...
How To Know You’ve Been Hacked
Ack, it’s a Hack! According to BlogStorm, “Every month thousands of websites get hacked into and have hidden links inserted into the pages by people wanting their spam sites to rank highly in the search engines.” That’s a pretty big problem. When this happens, the majority of site owners aren’t even aware of it and suddenly Google traffic is completely ...
Get more clicks with optimized page titles, headlines and URLs
Do your Page Titles, Headlines and URLs Match? Think back a few years ago, back to when websites were not run by Content Management Systems (CMS) platforms such as Blogger and WordPress. Did the page title, article title and HTML file name of the pages on your Web site all match? No, probably not. There are a couple possible reasons why they didn’t, ...
Trackbacks- How to Build Strong Authority Relationships That Bring Search Results to Life
What’s a trackback? Simple, it’s when you write a post on a specific topic, and then link out from the same post to relevant content. In order to demonstrate the how and why, I’ll use the subject of foreclosures to illustrate how you can use larger sites to your advantage since you’re probably not wishing to trackback to your local ...
Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate [#10]
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Top 10 Ways to Use Blogging in Real Estate [#10] – SEO SEO = Search Engine Optimization, not Sour Evolution of Optimists (as some still believe). There are a million different blog posts out there (and books, too) that explain why blogs are good for SEO, so this will be short, sweet and to the point. Professional Blogs are sites ...
Is Social Media for Real Estate a Replacement for Blogging? [blog vs. microblog]
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The short answer is no Many seem to think that being live in social media spaces and chatting it up with the folks is a more robust way of accomplishing the same feat as blogging, but they go hand in hand. Put simply, blogging is part of social media, but in my view, it’s still only a two dimensional conversation ...
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