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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A couple of weeks ago, in response to a post I published on my blog, Drew Meyers asked me if I would consider writing an article on the value of social networking. I played the “I’m really busy” card and bought myself a little time….

As a nerd, I like to check out the end of the year lists that most companies put out. You can find thousands just by typing “Best of 2007” in Google and waste a couple of days getting feedback from everyone. One list I thought…