There are tons of free data sources for your real estate web site and I have one more to add to my list — Walk Score. If you’re not familiar with Walk Score, this is their description of how it works: Walk Score helps people…

Do you have any idea how thrilled the Monks were when the printing press was invented? They could put up the quill pens and get over the old version of carpal tunnel. As a real estate professional in today’s Internet world, you should be ecstatic…

Here’s a few links for the geeks out there: Carnival of Real Estate #117 Winners Introducing BloodhoundBlog.net, free WordPress weblogs for real estate professionals Off Site SEO- Building Backlinks HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community

Google’s geeks have been hard at work developing a slick voice recognition app for mobile devices that allows you to use voice commands to generate search results. According to TechCrunch the folks at Google were all fired up to have the app ready for download…

I think most of you will agree with me that data is a critical piece of building a fantastic consumer destination — not only in the real estate vertical, but other verticals as well. In the real estate space,  buyers, sellers, and home owners are…

Websites are not dead. In fact, it’s a mistaken belief that a blog is not a website. It is just another way of organizing, updating and presenting content. A blog can be a part of your website, or it can stand alone and link to…

Many MLS systems across the United States have been critical of listing aggregator sites like Zillow and Trulia and they now have entered into the arena to try and take back a piece of the pie. MRIS, an east coast MLS (Multiple Listing Service) has…

Diverse Solutions released a major upgrade this week to their IDX product — here’s a list of some of the new features: Search by school district Search by price drops Ability to search bank owned, short sale, and foreclosure listings Ability to search FSBO listings…

Yesterday, Google announced they’ve added three more highly requested cities to their street view coverage — Seattle, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Previous Geek Estate Street View coverage: Now Available: Google Street View via API Google Street View — Too Close for Comfort? Google StreetView Expands…

This is a brain teaser for the SEO geeks. Most SEO decisions require a trade-off and this one has me in analysis paralysis so I thought I’d ask a few friends for their advice. The question is this; is Zillow’s Blog more useful to Zillow…