Virtual Results makes beautiful, and functional, web sites. And they recently announced a new product, “Predesigned Websites that Work“. To sweeten the pot they are having a drawing for a FREE setup of a “WtW” (I just made that “WtW” up) — saving you, assuming…

While most brokers and agents are “saving” money, there is no better time to build an effective, lead-generating real estate site.
And why a strong domain costs more than gold, and how to go after profitable “long tail” keywords, to sharing my $2,000 website design mistake. I share my heart-wrenching, market-dominating, time-consuming and ultimately profitable strategies for your real estate site.

As you all know, graphics adds glitter to any web site. I have shown in my previous post how you can use FusionCharts to create cool Mortgage Charts using the Zillow Mortgage API. In this post, I will show couple of free software you can…

I just discovered the PostRank WordPress plugin from reading Chris Brogan’s blog and was considering trying it out. Knowing which of my articles are being shared broadly across the web seems like it could be valuable. Anyone in the real estate vertical using this? If…

If you own a web site, you may have seen web traffic reports for your site. Every website host provides some form of traffic analysis tools and reporting features as a part of their web hosting package. Based on my experience, many site owners are…

In August, CyberHomes stopped offering their home valuation API services. I liked their APIs, especially the comparable sales and neighborhood info which were very useful to create visual charts and were used for analysis by many folks. In retrospect, I should have known this from their lack…

In addition to using Twitter and Facebook for branding, direct traffic, and relationship building, you can now add “better SEO” to the list of reasons to use the social platforms. While most in the SEO world have thought links shared on Twitter and Facebook have influenced…

There are real estate sites like Zillow, eppraisal and Trulia giving away information like the following via APIs: Mortgage rates (for all the states and national average) Various statistical info like history of home prices for zip codes, neighborhoods and states. If you do not…

Recently someone contacted me and inquired about pulling comparable sales info from Zillow, Trulia, Eppraisal, Yahoo and Cyberhomes. He also wanted to sort the details before storing it in excel for further analysis. If it works well, he wanted to package it and sell to…

Literally. Google’s local listing in their search results are now larger then the organic listings. Take a look at this Google search for “Hawaii Big Island real estate.” The first 7 listings are large local results with only 6 natural listings below. The reason this…