When you decide to start a webpage, the first thing you select is your domain name. Although you can get domain names for $5-$10 nowadays, it is hard to get the popular domain names that were originally acquired years ago. One example of an incredibly…

Automated home valuations are a growing trend on real estate websites.  While Zillow’s Zestimates are clearly the standout leaders in this field, there are plenty of others. Eppraisal.  Cyberhomes. Trulia has a one-city beta product in the works, while First American has had its own automated valuation model for quite…

National real estate player Trulia began its foray into the home valuation space yesterday. Trulia Estimates, as they’re called, are currently in beta and available for sold properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. Brian Boero of 1000Watt Consulting provides a thorough break down of the…

If you have a real estate website then it is essential that you are property utilizing search engine optimization (SEO) to its fullest. Here are 10 SEO tips that are great for any real estate website. Tip #1: Do Your Research When creating (or promoting)…

I’m assuming 99% of the readers of Geek Estate know the major US portals like Zillow, Trulia, Yahoo! Real Estate, and Realtor.com. A smaller percentage have probably heard of the likes of Frontdoor and Hotpads. But I would bet very few are familiar with many,…

Google is arguably the best search engine on the web with everything from Google+ to Google AdWords. Over the last several years the company has landed in the top of the Fortune list of the top 100 employers, offering employees everything from nap areas to…

Market Leader has been busy this week. First, they announced their new “Market Insider” (essentially a competitor to Altos Research). Then, today, they announced they have acquired Sharper Agent, a technology provider providing online and print marketing suites for agents. They are obviously incredibly focused…

Zillow’s closing stock price went ‘down’ to $33.20,  almost $14 to what they wanted. They got a cool $70 million for it, $20 million more than what they were hoping.  Not bad for a real estate related IPO. By now, everyone is chimed in with…

My good friends over at Diverse Solutions released a brand new site design about a week ago (I’m been behind with this blog post). Having just recently gone through our own site redesign for Virtual Results, I know full well the amount of work that…

The acquisition of SocialBios by Move is a smart strategic move. Why? Several reasons It’s “social” — which means it’ll generate some buzz in the industry (the fact that this post has 55 re-tweets should tell you something) and give their sales team something else…