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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Links for Geeks – March 25th

Links for Geeks – March 25th

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a links for geeks post, so here are a few posts that have caught my interest over the past few days: Stop Paying Useless SEO Companies to Promote Your Website! Guest Blogging to Gain Traffic And Links The Difference…

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Transit Time Maps from Walk Score

Transit Time Maps from Walk Score

Walk Score just released some cool new transit time maps for the Bay Area, Seattle, and Portland (based on the Google Transit feed). You can see how long your commute would be depending on the area you live in and what time you need to…

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How to Identify a "nofollow" Link

How to Identify a "nofollow" Link

Thanks to Justin at Searching Solutions for this video tip to identifying “nofollow” links! How to Find a NoFollow Link from Justin Smith on Vimeo.

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ERA Re-Launches Their Website

ERA Re-Launches Their Website

ERA has just completed a major site redesign, according to Patrick Healey at Onboard. I spent a few minutes browsing around the site and like what I see. Any ideas which brokerage is next in line with a major redesign?

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A New Foreclosure Listings WordPress Plugin from Foreclosure.com

A New Foreclosure Listings WordPress Plugin from Foreclosure.com

For those of you interested in getting foreclosure listings on your blog, Foreclosure.com has a new foreclosure listings wordpress plugin you should try out. I haven’t seen this plugin on a live blog yet, but if you try it out, please leave a link in…

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Tweeple Pages – A New Twitter Tool

Tweeple Pages – A New Twitter Tool

Fellow Geek Estate Blog contributor James Shiner built a new tool worth checking out this weekend, particularly for those Twitter users reading — Tweeple Pages!

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Todd Lands the NAR Social Media Manager Role

Todd Lands the NAR Social Media Manager Role

It’s official — Todd Carpenter has landed the NAR Social Media Manager position! Todd will bring a wealth of experience, knowledge, and contacts in the social media space to NAR that should help NAR make progress much quicker than if they brought in someone without…

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Realogy to Syndicate Listings to Homes.com

Realogy to Syndicate Listings to Homes.com

For those interested in how the listings syndication space is shaping up, Realogy just announced they are now syndicating their listings to Homes.com [via PropertyWatch].

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Searching By Walk Score Values

Searching By Walk Score Values

For those of you who haven’t heard of Walk Score, I’d highly recommend checking the site out and their real estate services. They announced a few early adopters of their API back in January at Inman, but all the integrations I’ve seen to date (Postlets…

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Who is NAR's Social Media Manager Going to Be?

Who is NAR's Social Media Manager Going to Be?

real/diaBlog is reporting that the NAR social media manager position is filled, but the final hire hasn’t been announced yet. My hunch is Todd Carpenter, but I honestly have no idea. Any guesses as to who is going to get the nod? What’s the first…

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