Would the Real Estate Blogosphere (RE.net) Benefit from a "Techmeme for Real Estate"?
I, for one, think the RE.net would benefit and would love to see it happen. What about you? Check out my post on the Carnival of Real Estate blog for more.
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Real Estate Photographer Directory
More and more Realtors and home sellers are taking advantage of the expertise of professional real estate photographers. In the slower market these days great photography is an obvious way to complete with all the other listings in this high inventory market. I’ve been building…
Don't Make the Mistake of Forgetting to Backup Your Blog
Most bloggers know blogging (read: good writing) is hard work and consumes a LOT of time. As a blogger who has spent well over a hundred hours creating content for both my blog and the blogs I contribute to on behalf of Zillow, I realize…
Open Letter To Yahoo!, Google, Trulia, and Zillow, Encouraging Data Standards
As part of the newly elected Board of Directors of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), I have accepted the challenge along with the other 9 Board members to construct a real estate data standard that can be beneficial for all parties involved: Agents, Brokers,…
40 Blogging Tips for 2008
Ken at Realivent put together a great post for you bloggers and wanna-be-bloggers — 40 Tips to Kickstart Your Own Blog in 2008. He broke out the tips into 4 categories: 10 Admin Tips During Blog Install 10 Resources for Themes and Designs 10 Links…
Must Have Apps For The New Mac User
Judging from the log files to the sites we manage, 2007 could definitely be dubbed the year of the switch. Apple’s market share has seen it’s largest increase in some time. If you’re lucky enough to have joined the cult that is Mac, take a…
New Geek Estate Contributor – Matthew Kelly
Drew and I were discussing the need to get more mortgage and lending professionals involved with Geek Estate. I am lucky enough to have a friend and former colleague that works with the on-line lender, RMC Vanguard Mortgage Corporation out of Houston Texas. RMC employs…
What Is Joomla?
Joomla is an open-source (free) content management system that you can use to setup the foundation for a website. In this day and age, having a website for your real estate business is essential and is an excellent opportunity to add a new source to…
Images and SEO
A picture may be worth a thousand words to you and I but an image is meaningless to search engines until you describe it to them. In this simple video, Matt Cutts from google explains how to use the alt tag to ensure that search…
Top 10 Photography for Real Estate Posts In 2007
Today, fellow Geek Estate contributor Larry Lohrman highlighted the top 10 posts from 2007 from his blog, Photography for Real Estate. If you are interested in real estate photography and figuring out how to utilize excellent photography to make your listings stand out from the…
