The last time I posted on Geek Estate, I wrote about how to use the Trulia API from a PHP page. Since watching mortgage rates fall is a lot more fun than watching home prices fall, I decided to implement a simple widget that uses…

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.

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?

Most of the agents that I know are extremely diligent about watching their web traffic and their hits to keep their site running with the most relevant information and help their search engine rankings.  While this is a very effective practice one of the other items…

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…

As real estate professionals who want to make a success of our Internet presence, we should know some of the terminology. But, we should also know how to concentrate our time and efforts on what’s important when it comes to tracking visits to, and activity…

To my surprise, during the last two press releases regarding the Houston Real Estate market stats, HAR has gone video. By and large, the clip consists of summarizing the association’s position already stated in the release. Nevertheless, this is a small step forward in the…

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

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…

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].