I recently piped in on a REW thread concerning links from .edu’s and .gov’s, and it got me a little “miffed”. I thought it would make for a good post topic to cover here because there are ways of getting these links without being spammy….

If you have a real estate website then it is essential that you are property utilizing search engine optimization (SEO) to its fullest. Here are 10 SEO tips that are great for any real estate website. Tip #1: Do Your Research When creating (or promoting)…

I’m assuming 99% of the readers of Geek Estate know the major US portals like Zillow, Trulia, Yahoo! Real Estate, and Realtor.com. A smaller percentage have probably heard of the likes of Frontdoor and Hotpads. But I would bet very few are familiar with many,…

The topic of tonight’s #retechchat was Online Lead Incubation. Among other things, there was a wide range of discussion about forced registration (& lack thereof), conversion rates, and follow up strategies. Here’s a great tweet from Jeffrey Douglas that resonated with me on the topic…

As review sites like Yelp grow in popularity, so does the need for real estate agents to be cognizant of how that can affect their business. Many agents are reluctant to have this level of transparency, yet this is a reality of today’s web 2.0…

The topic of discussion for #retechchat tonight will be Online lead Incubation. In other words, how to turn an initial email address from an IDX registration, home value form, or other conversion tactic into an actual client. If you have questions, want to learn, or just want…

I agree with Marlow — this is a great example of a real estate marketing video (for 92 Sandhill Road). Are you creating videos for your listings? If so, how do they compare to this? How much are you spending on video?

We have a giveaway for 3 lucky Geek Estate Readers — a FREE 30 Gigabyte SugarSync account. For those of you who aren’t familiar with SugarSync, it’s your personal cloud to back up all your music, photos, documents, and videos across all your various devices….

For those who missed them, here are a few articles/announcements from this week that may be of interest: WalkScore released a new WordPress plugin (downloadable here) Where is Real Estate’s PIE? – I’m working on a separate post with more of my thoughts on this…

Google is arguably the best search engine on the web with everything from Google+ to Google AdWords. Over the last several years the company has landed in the top of the Fortune list of the top 100 employers, offering employees everything from nap areas to…