Judging from the log files to the sites we manage, 2007 could definitely be dubbed the year of the switch. Apple's market share has seen it's largest increase in some time. If you're lucky enough to have joined the cult that is Mac, take a...
Drew and I were discussing the need to get more mortgage and lending professionals involved with Geek Estate. I am lucky enough to have a friend and former colleague that works with the on-line lender, RMC Vanguard Mortgage Corporation out of Houston Texas. RMC employs...
Joomla is an open-source (free) content management system that you can use to setup the foundation for a website. In this day and age, having a website for your real estate business is essential and is an excellent opportunity to add a new source...
A picture may be worth a thousand words to you and I but an image is meaningless to search engines until you describe it to them. In this simple video, Matt Cutts from google explains how to use the alt tag to ensure that search...
Today, fellow Geek Estate contributor Larry Lohrman highlighted the top 10 posts from 2007 from his blog, Photography for Real Estate. If you are interested in real estate photography and figuring out how to utilize excellent photography to make your listings stand out from the...
A couple of weeks ago, in response to a post I published on my blog, Drew Meyers asked me if I would consider writing an article on the value of social networking. I played the "I'm really busy" card and bought myself a little time....
As a nerd, I like to check out the end of the year lists that most companies put out. You can find thousands just by typing "Best of 2007" in Google and waste a couple of days getting feedback from everyone. One list...
As many agents know, one of the best ways to promote your blog, website or agent profile page is to obtain inbound links. For those of you new to link building, it can be a daunting and painful task! Lucky for you, I took some...
I'm pleased to announce a geeky colleague of mine at Zillow as a Geek Estate contributor -- Peter Quinlan, who was recently brought on to improve Zillow's SEO. However, though he's new to Zillow, he's certainly no stranger to the real estate tech world --...
There's been lots of commentary on future of the the newspaper business over the past couple weeks. But, the point of this post is not to throw my thoughts on the subject out there -- it's just to highlight a cool web site involving newspapers...
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