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Website Design & Usability Make a Huge Difference

Website Design & Usability Make a Huge Difference

Design your site for your users and not your ego. Lets face it, most users landing on a real estate site are most interested in searching for properties not whether you are a GRI, CRS, CRE, ABR, SRES, etc…. I think you get the point….

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Why WebMynd.com Kills Google's Twitter Announcement

Why WebMynd.com Kills Google's Twitter Announcement

Google and Twitter has been big news across the blogosphere today… unfortunately it provokes a “meh” response from me. Why? Because a simple plugin for IE or Firefox called WebMynd (that has been around for quite a while) already did this and much much more.

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Real Estate Businesses are Going Mobile

Real Estate Businesses are Going Mobile

Real Estate Businesses are Going Mobile Business applications for the Smartphone, Blackberry and iPhone are becoming more of a necessity for today’s Real Estate Industry Professional and Brokerage. Consumers are able to download these applications right from their portable/mobile phones and devices for FREE.  The…

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How WordPress MU Will Change the Online Real Estate Market

How WordPress MU Will Change the Online Real Estate Market

Wordpress MU is a multi-user blogging platform, allowing the webmaster to easily manage hundreds of thousands of blogs from a single WordPress installation… More and more Realtors, Homeowners, Appraisers, Loan Officers, Title Companies, and Mortgage Brokerages will be using this powerful application.

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Bing Webmaster Tools – A Novice's First Impression

Bing Webmaster Tools – A Novice's First Impression

I’m relatively new to the SEO world, but I’m interested/excited to see what kind of competition Bing can bring to Google’s search dominance.  GOOG is no longer the cool, independent startup that we all loved a few years back, it’s now a cool, 800 lb gorilla.  At…

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Local Market Explorer v2 Beta Now Available

Local Market Explorer v2 Beta Now Available

The final release of version 2 of the Local Market Explorer WordPress Plugin is still a week or so away, but for the adventurous, we’re making available a beta version to try out. I feel pretty confident that there aren’t major bugs though, so you…

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How Low Can You Go? Instant Traffic by Improving your Bounce Rate

How Low Can You Go? Instant Traffic by Improving your Bounce Rate

There’s been some talk about website redesign on the Geek Estate blog recently. If you haven’t read them, check out Joshua Ferris’ post about the lessons learned from his real estate site redesign and Matthew Swanson’s insight on testing new site designs without impacting production….

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Whats Important In An IDX Real Estate Website

Whats Important In An IDX Real Estate Website

In my last post someone asked me what IDX solution I thought was the best. I let them know that we created our own. The main reason was because I could not find the complete package of what I was looking for my self and…

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How to: Testing a New Site Design Without Impacting Production

How to: Testing a New Site Design Without Impacting Production

Let’s face it, there comes a time when we all want to give our site(s) a new look and feel, or a fresh paint job. Joshua wrote an excellent post about a month ago on 7 Lessons I Learned From My Real Estate Site Redesign….

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Local Class Information from Teachstreet Now Included in Local Market Explorer

Local Class Information from Teachstreet Now Included in Local Market Explorer

I thought I’d give everyone a heads up that version 1.1 of the Local Market Explorer for WordPress includes a new module — local class information from TeachStreet. From the TeachStreet blog: To see how it can work, check out this realtor’s local class and…

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