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…

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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…

Walk Score has a new iPhone app (available in the appstore for free) that I’m sure the iPhone geeks reading this are going to want to check out. The primary function of the app is to show you the Walk Score of your current location,…

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…

There are a lot of keyword research tools out there, but Google Insights is not one that doesn’t get much love. Which is strange to me since I feel it is one of the most powerful real estate keyword tools around. The thing I like…

Back at Portland’s Real Estate Bar Camp I was intrigued by a discussion led by Galen Ward of Estately about how to increase conversions on real estate websites. How do we take visitors to our blog or website and turn them into closed sales? I’m…

As a real estate agent and a full time road warrior, I always look forward to the next iPhone application that will streamline my workload and save time while showing houses. If you have an iPhone or are thinking about picking one up, here are…