Facebook is major player online and competing with Google for users and traffic.  Agents and brokers need to seriously start thinking of ways to incorporate that in their business plans. I would be really interested to hear how agents are effectively driving traffic to their…

Skitch has an easy to use fast application for your Mac. You can also upload and use Skitch.com if you are not a Mac user. Skitch is great because you can take a screen shot of anything, mark tit up with notes and share with…

With the recent news of existing July home sales plunging (27.2%) to its lowest level in approximately 15 years. Some economists are predicting a double dip recession. A couple reasons are because a lot of the banks are holding foreclosures off the market along with…

There is a lot of buzz out there about how great it is to get property listings from your IDX on your site indexed. There are some that say it brings a great benefit for SEO and others that think it is more important because…

I am always looking for new effective ways to drive more traffic to my site and help others do the same, so I wanted to explore the most effective ways to do that without organic search engine rankings. Not everyone can get in the top…

If you were one of the people interested in Google using site speed in their rankings. I wanted to let you know that Matt Cutts recently posted more information about how Google is incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals they use…

Drip email campaigns seem to be one of the big marketing ideas agents are using these days… Agents are actually taking the users that are signing up on their websites to receive new listing email alerts of new properties and placing them on a drip…

I would love to get some real hard facts from agents that are actually tracking stats with goals through analytics. Not just agents that think one way is better than the other based on their feelings and their comfort level, but real data. Most likely…

Aloha Tony did a survey in recent post that asked, “What percentage of your closings come from the web leads on your personal site? “.  I was amazed to see the high percentage of net savvy Geek Estate agents in the 0 -25% range. I…

I thought it would be fun to ask a couple friends that I respect a few questions about Search Engine Marketing / SEO. Both Justin and Bob have been very successful in their real estate markets plus consulting clients in other verticals as well. Bob…