About Drew Meyers

Founder of GEM Diamond. Zillow Alum. Real estate tech geek. Travel addict & former co-founder of Horizon. Social entrepreneurship advocate. Fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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What is Bounce Rate?

What is Bounce Rate?

[via Ubertor via Reachd]

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Creating City Pages with WordPress – Local Market Explorer WP Plugin

Creating City Pages with WordPress – Local Market Explorer WP Plugin

If you are running a WordPress blog focused on real estate, there is a new plugin (I think) is worth taking a look at — Local Market Explorer. The plugin creates “city pages” inside of the WordPress interface and pulls school data from Education.com, local…

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Walk Score Releases iPhone App

Walk Score Releases iPhone App

Walk Score has a new iPhone app (available in the appstore for free) that I’m sure the iPhone geeks reading this are going to want to check out. The primary function of the app is to show you the Walk Score of your current location,…

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My Takeaway from Real Estate Connect

My Takeaway from Real Estate Connect

I’ve spent the last week in San Francisco (I’m still here) at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference. Though it’s been exhausting balancing socializing, meetings, sessions, and somehow trying to keep up with my inbox at the same time — it’s certainly been a fantastic…

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Links for Geeks – July 31st

Links for Geeks – July 31st

Here are a couple links worth taking a look at: Add millions of listings to your website and blog To Script or Not to Script (a continuation on the discussion on Jeff’s Geek Estate post) Social Media And The New Agent 26 Ways for Real…

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How People Share Online Content

How People Share Online Content

I thought this was an interesting chart from Silicon Alley Insider — the fact that 24% of people are using Facebook to share content with friends is impressive. I knew it was high, but not that high. What social sharing sites and calls to action…

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Short vs Long-Tail — What to Optimize Your SEO For?

Short vs Long-Tail — What to Optimize Your SEO For?

Chart courtesy of Eric Stegemann at Tribus When determining your SEO strategy, one of the first things you need to determine is what keywords you are going to optimize your site for. There are two primary schools of thought — focus on either a) the…

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Linkbuilders: Please Get Less Obvious About Your Commenting Tactics

Linkbuilders: Please Get Less Obvious About Your Commenting Tactics

There were three comments on Geek Estate Blog this morning that I canned due to being blatant attempts to build links with specific keywords as anchor text. This type of link building is fairly easy to spot because the comments seldom add any value to…

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Links for Geeks – July 7th

Links for Geeks – July 7th

Here are some gems worth reading (and watching): Start by watching David’s “Blogging is so 2008” video: Here is conversation on David’s Active Rain blog. Then head over and read Rob Hahn’s response — Blogging is Forever: Branding vs. Lead Generation.  Anyone that knows me…

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Google Adds Real Estate Listings to Google Maps

Google Adds Real Estate Listings to Google Maps

There is some big news coming from the Google team in Australia today — real estate listings are now integrated in Google Maps. Previously, you had to navigate to the Housing section of Google Base to find real estate listings on Google. Now, you can…

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