Today’s post is my first contribution to the Geek Estate Blog, but before I dive into the details of today’s post, I wanted to take a quick second to do an intro about my background in the online world. My name is Matthew Swanson and…

Your favorite real estate sites and blogs today are slick and shiny, modern and contemporary, functional and 2.0. But that wasn’t always the case. Check out some of your favorite sites way back when: Zillow.com circa January 2005 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy circa January…

If you are running a WordPress blog focused on real estate, there is a new plugin (I think) is worth taking a look at — Local Market Explorer. The plugin creates “city pages” inside of the WordPress interface and pulls school data from Education.com, local…

I recently had the pleasure of transferring my real estate site, which runs on WordPress, over to a new host. Moving your site from one host to another can be a tedious process but the process is amplified by 10 if you have to transfer…

Since single property websites became a powerful (somewhat) mainstream marketing tool for real estate, forward thinking agents all over the country have starting building them for every single one of the listings they market. But so far, the choices we have at our disposal, leave…

[Author’s note: This article was originally posted on Phoenix Real Estate Guy. Drew and I both thought it might be good for Geek Estate Blog readers as well. It’s been modified ever-so-slightly from the original] Back in May 2008, I tried out the Disqus (pronounced…

Have real estate agents missed the boat when it comes to using social media? At what point does it stop being work and just become a hobby? I do believe that social media marketing (SMM) has a place in the modern sales repertoire, but not…

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…

real/diaBlog is reporting that the NAR social media manager position is filled, but the final hire hasn’t been announced yet. My hunch is Todd Carpenter, but I honestly have no idea. Any guesses as to who is going to get the nod? What’s the first…

Real estate is “location, location, location!” And, website or blog search engine visibility is “content, content, content.” Don’t get caught up in hiring SEO (Search Engine Optimization) “Gurus” who promise top search engine positions in a hurry. A few may be able to do some…