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…

As many agents know, one of the best ways to promote your blog, website or agent profile page is to obtain inbound links. For those of you new to link building, it can be a daunting and painful task! Lucky for you, I took some…

I’m pleased to announce a geeky colleague of mine at Zillow as a Geek Estate contributor — Peter Quinlan, who was recently brought on to improve Zillow’s SEO. However, though he’s new to Zillow, he’s certainly no stranger to the real estate tech world —…

There’s been lots of commentary on future of the the newspaper business over the past couple weeks. But, the point of this post is not to throw my thoughts on the subject out there — it’s just to highlight a cool web site involving newspapers…

Google Blogoscoped is a nifty little blog that is chocked full of all sorts of Google goodness. From posts about Google history, to what makes Google tick, to new Googelish features, it is a great add to any geek’s feed reader. It is not an…

Check out Daniel Rothamel’s video — episode #1 of “Real Estate in Black and White”. After watching this, I hope you get the message. [via FoREM & Agent Genius]

As a web developer, I have the fun of creating feeds for different agents to use as a means to get their listings onto some of the bigger listing web sites (Trulia, Zillow, formerly edgeio, Vast, etc.). All of these sites have different specifications as…