There are many real estate technology vendors that build agent websites, with Real Estate Webmasters (REW) being one of the companies in the mix. If you’ve heard about REW before, chances are you’ve also heard about their superb ability to optimize their websites for search…

Ok, maybe not just like Britney. But you’re closer than you think. Did you know “Britney Spears” is one of the most searched keywords in both Yahoo and Google? It’s not likely as many people search your name. However your name is a keyword ,…

As a follow-up to Drew’s marketing your blog post, I thought I’d re-cap of some of the main points that I touched on during Wednesday’s Marketing Your Blog panel at Inman Real Estate Connect. Moderator Joel Burslem kicked off the discussion with the question “how…

A picture may be worth a thousand words to you and I but an image is meaningless to search engines until you describe it to them. In this simple video, Matt Cutts from google explains how to use the alt tag to ensure that search…

As many agents know, one of the best ways to promote your blog, website or agent profile page is to obtain inbound links. For those of you new to link building, it can be a daunting and painful task! Lucky for you, I took some…

As another year comes to an end, it’s always fun to look back and reflect on what happened, what we accomplished, where we went and so on. As a Geek, here’s my contribution. With no further adieu, here are the 2007 Top 10 Google searches……

There is a great video interview on Reachd with Matt Cutts, who is the head of Google’s webspam team. There are lots of other great videos on Reachd TV.

Rodney Bartlett of Reachd.com interviews Vanessa Fox of Ignition Partners (formally of Google.com and Zillow.com). The main question.. what would Vanessa do if she was a real estate agent?

Aaron Wall has released today The Blogger’s Guide to SEO. Wall is one of the world’s foremost authorities on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). His eBook, The SEO Book is well written, and highly regarded in the SEO community. SEO in real estate weblogging is important….

Google Analytics If you use Google Analytics to analyze your web/blog traffic (and you do use something, right?), there is a nifty new addition. You can now have Analytics track and report on what how your web/blog visitors are using your site’s internal search function….