+ No surprise here — Diverse Solutions is the 1st national IDX provider to add yet another new technology into their search experience (the last being their integration of Dwellicious). This time, they’re the 1st IDX provider to enable Walk Score integration into the search…

The folks at Onboard have been busy — they just released version 0.9 of their Lifestyle Listings Engine API that I wrote about back in January. Looks like lots of cool features were added, including the ability to search based on school performance, distance to…

The American consumer is going mobile at a break-neck pace. Sometime late last year, according to researchers, the number of people living in households with one or more cell phones exceeded that of people living in a household with a landline. And, it’s only going to move more in that direction. The convenience of the cell phone in our busy lives is just too great.

If you’re like me, it’s hard to commit hours and hours of writing “why” you should live in my area when choosing a home. Sure, I could frame in a local page of great information but what makes the internet great is the ability for…

The last time I posted on Geek Estate, I wrote about how to use the Trulia API from a PHP page. Since watching mortgage rates fall is a lot more fun than watching home prices fall, I decided to implement a simple widget that uses…

Thanks to Justin at Searching Solutions for this video tip to identifying “nofollow” links! How to Find a NoFollow Link from Justin Smith on Vimeo.

Most of the agents that I know are extremely diligent about watching their web traffic and their hits to keep their site running with the most relevant information and help their search engine rankings.  While this is a very effective practice one of the other items…

As real estate professionals who want to make a success of our Internet presence, we should know some of the terminology. But, we should also know how to concentrate our time and efforts on what’s important when it comes to tracking visits to, and activity…

A new real estate web technology that is gaining a lot of traction and attention lately is the new social bookmarking tool for listings know as Dwellicious. Designed to work with the most popular web portals, Dwellicious allows consumers to save and manage their home…

The most competition-intensive thing you can do with your website is to develop all of your content around keywords and phrases that are generic real estate, as “YourTown real estate.” Virtually 95+% of your competition is doing the very same thing. Far from a negative,…