Month: January 2010

14 Jan World’s Top SEO Professionals Reveal Search Engine Ranking Factors

Posted at 19:38h in SEO by Justin Britt

Every couple years SEOmoz surveys top SEO Professionals to get their thoughts on current search engine ranking factors. The result is a document detailing the opinions of leading SEOs on what works and what doesn't when it comes to search engine optimization. When looking to improve technical SEO by adding structured data, open graph tags, and the like, you can check out this website support service here for more info! If you wish to seek out advice from a top professional SEO agency, click here! For those in specialized fields, a life science SEO agency can offer tailored insights and strategies. This is a great resource for real estate agents & brokers working on their own sites who don't have the time or money to do their own extensive testing to compile this type of information. Check it out... SEOmoz's Search Engine Ranking Factors → Now that you've seen the survey let's take some time to review the...

11 Jan VREBC "Meetups" are Networking & Learning Bonanza! Don't Miss Out

Posted at 10:48h in Marketing, Office Technology by TheRECoach

Last Monday, Stacey Harmon (Pango Group’s Director of Social Media) and Myself, were blessed with a unique opportunity to host a “Meetup” for the Jan 4th 2010 Virtual BarCamp (VREBC) at First Team Real Estate in beautiful Costa Mesa Ca. As one of the “Original...

10 Jan 4 Useful Real Estate Applications for Blackberry

Posted at 20:33h in Blackberry, Mobile by Ryan Hinricher

I was searching the Geek Estate repository recently and saw the significant number of iPhone application reviews for real estate professionals on the market. I’m salivating over them as I write this and often wish my Blackberry would magically turn into an iPhone. I haven’t...

09 Jan Project WordPress: Theme Selection

Posted at 12:42h in Blogging, Websites, Wordpress by Eric Bramlett

It's been a bit longer since my last Project Wordpress post. Holidays, work, & other excuses kept getting in the way of blogging. Back on track, and I'll post a bit about theme selection. Theme selection is obviously personal, so this post is intended more to...

08 Jan 7 Principles for Drip Email Campaigns that don't suck

Posted at 17:38h in E-Mail, Marketing by Tony Kawaguchi

After hundreds of changes and experimentation with various email campaigns, I offer the 7 most important things I've learned about drip campaigns for real estate...

07 Jan Geek Estate Blog / Comment Policy Is Posted

Posted at 17:45h in Blogging by Drew Meyers

In my post a few days ago resulting from a spammer annoying me, I said I'd have a comment policy posted by the end of the week. I didn't want to disappoint, so here it is -- Blog / Comment Policy for Geek Estate Blog...

06 Jan What Was Your ROI from Social Media in 2009?

Posted at 14:15h in SMM by Drew Meyers

There is a question in Zillow Advice from Kathy Toth that I want to throw out to the tech savvy audience here on Geek Estate: What closings did you have in 2009 from social media; what sources and how many units. What ROI? Any feedback for...

06 Jan Designing a New Blog From the Ground Up – The First Steps

Posted at 13:44h in Blogging, Wordpress by Justin Bartlett

The combination of every awesome web 2.0 technique and web 3.0 technique I know I like to think of as web 3.1… I realized as I started writing there’s simply too much information to cover in one post, so I’m going to split this bad...

05 Jan Kiss Your "RSS" Good-bye!

Posted at 17:46h in Blogging, Communication, Identity Management by TheRECoach

Kiss Your “RSS” Goodbye! Ok, so I’m hosting “The World’s Best IRL Meetup” for VREBC (Virtual REBarCamp) yesterday in Costa Mesa w/ The talented Ms. Stacey Harmon (and a Cameo appearance by Everyone’s Tech Guy, Loren Nason) when during a break in the action a...

05 Jan An Example of How NOT to Build Links

Posted at 12:20h in Identity Management by Drew Meyers

Speaking of online reputation management for real estate professionals, there was a comment by Simon Salloom (more likely an SEO firm on his behalf) on my post about reputation management that I found troubling and quite contrary to the advice given in my presentation. I've...