A Quick Update
As you may or may not know, I’ve been traveling since March (a month and a half on the road in the US, but mostly abroad). As a result, I’ve been a bit disconnected from the Geek Estate community over the past 8 months. However,…
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Is Blogging a Chore or a Passion?
Even though I no longer work at Zillow, I still browse around in Zillow Advice every now and then since that community was part of my daily life for so long. This evening, while making my rounds, I saw a question that caught my attention…
Local Goes Big In Google's Search Results
Literally. Google’s local listing in their search results are now larger then the organic listings. Take a look at this Google search for “Hawaii Big Island real estate.” The first 7 listings are large local results with only 6 natural listings below. The reason this…
Twitter Search for Hyper-Local Social Media Marketing
Twitter search is now one of the most widely used search engines on the web. With more than 1 billion tweets indexed each month, and more than 150 million Twitter members, that’s a lot of timely content and people at your fingertips. I know you…
Links for Geeks – October 22nd
SEO, the Real Estate Blog, and Competition — As usual when Rob writes, it’s a great thought provoking read. And, wow, I wish I had time to write my thoughts on this one right now, but I’ve got to get ready for my flight from…
Is Anyone Doing Video Like THIS in the US?
This is the first I’ve come across Brett Clements, but WOW. Seriously — is anyone doing video like THIS in the United States?? If not, WHY? From Larry Lohrman at Photography from Real Estate.
How To Increase Traffic to Your Website…Google Instantly!
Will Google Instant Change The Longtail As We Know It? Recently, I was on Maui (I know…I live a tough life) helping top Wailea real estate agent, Dano Sayles, get up to speed with Hawaii Life’s back end tools. While I was there, I had…
Easy A/B Tests For Everyone
A/B Testing is a way to test different headlines, calls to action, or anything else on your website with different segments of visitors. Instead of just guessing which headline converts your visitors into clients, you actually test several version and pick the winner. Sounds great,…
My Hunch on the NAR/Realtor.com Announcement
This is just a hunch, but I believe the fact that NAR has allowed Realtor.com to aggregate MLS data & syndicate all their listings is a direct response to the Zillow deal with Yahoo! Real Estate. Zillow will be syndicating all their listings to Yahoo!…
Live Streaming – When Will it Come to Real Estate?
Today, YouTube is testing their new YouTube livestreaming platform. Here’s the current line up of content: But this post isn’t about YouTube; it’s about the question of when this technology will become used in the real estate industry. The technology has been around – Jeff…
