4realz.net

Or does the line between SEO and social media just get more blurry?
(h/t G. Dewald of Union Street Media )

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…links are where it’s at.”

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…never made much inroads with the real estate community (or real estate portals for that matter).   Imagine if the Realtor.com team had bought Outside.in instead of building the neighborhoods project.
And it really doesn’t matter if it was Zillow, Trulia, AOL, Yahoo or Realtor.com, it could be a win for the real estate portal (lots of [...]

After last Thursday’s event, Jim and I took the weekend to relax and digest what we learned. The break was nice, but now we’re ready to hit the next event up harder than ever!  
Here are some of the things that I learned from our first event:

The people in the audience seemed [...]

I think I’ve recovered enough now to actually post about it!
Despite our best efforts to be prepared, the day started off a bit rough with a nearby mudslide taking out power in our building in the morning (meaning no hot coffee and no projector) and a 9-car pileup on a nearby freeway [...]

…Realtor magazine!
Lots of RE.net names mentioned in this article in terms of both people and companies.   Fun stuff all around.
(h/t to RE Tomato)

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Thanks to Jay’s post about Phoenix real estate, I just checked RCG’s ranking for [Seattle Real Estate] and noticed we bumped back up to the first page on Google.   That particular search is normally pretty stable, so it’s nice to see an uptick for RCG.
Also interesting, I noticed that Jay appeared in a (relatively stable) [...]

…the greatest real estate agent in the world contest!
By the way, if you love that she is winning this contest against a bunch of SEO experts, then I highly recommend linking to her post with the words greatest real estate agent in the world.
Reminds me of the fun I had on RCG’s first [...]

real estate professionals.

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It’s much better to focus on being interesting.

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…are in a bit of SEO trouble after REW upset the Google Gods by dancing around the edges of good linking etiquette. 

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Jim goes so far as to imagine a day when a domain gets passed along with the real property.   While the conversation is largely irrelevant in today’s market, I find the topic strangely compelling and even start wondering about random ramifications.  For example, how well would a URL have to rank in Google before it [...]

…and I’m surprised that Greg has such a lowly view of Google’s algorithms. I’ve found that the traffic that comes to RCG from search terms like [moving to seattle] and [agent recommendations] is highly relevant and RCG contributors get more than a few clients out of search terms like these each month. Having [...]

…previous real estate blogs weren’t getting much traffic.
About the same time I started blogging about real estate, Google came out with gmaps.   In order to build a little buzz around my new site, I built a little app on top of the their platform that put NWMLS data on top of a google map. [...]

(some names left anonymous to protect the innocent)

There’s a hell of a lot of VC money floating around this industry. I was surprised at how many people there were with lots of VC funding. Joel seemed to notice the same thing: “a whole new crop of real [...]

…you can be pretty sure they are trying to sell you a website product and they are hoping to play off of your inexperience.   
Let’s take Rain City Guide for example…  Mary McKnight gives 8 steps to guarantee first page placement in Google.    I’ve done EVERY one of these things (and more) on [...]

Brian Brady’s (great post) on getting the most out of technology (as oppose to letting it get the most out of you), reminded me about a conversation I had with him this past week…
We’re both scheduled to be moderators for the final session of Blogger’s Connect (”Steer Your Blog Toward the Long Tail”) and, at [...]

Bribing Matt Cutts
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYQ-ev3DKE]
(via bloodhound)

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…for the search term [4realz].   It’s a start!  :) 

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#1 result for the search term “4 realz” already?  I didn’t even expect to be in Google’s database yet, let alone out of their sandbox in just three days.

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