4realz.net

…at the top of search results or on the back of a phone book than have a reputation as a trusted and reliable authority in a niche area of the law.”
Notorious Rob has some interesting insight around how to use social media…

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…in two days and it reminded me that I’m about to hammer into REALTOR.com for the 2nd time in a short-while…  but I dont’ expect to appoligize at the end…
Today’s beef?
The realtor.com team managing their blog platform is acting reckless.
Here’s the background: Last week, I let the realtor.com team know that Trace at [...]

All the talk about Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google reminded me that I hadn’t checked to see if Microsoft has made any improvement to their search results in quite a while…
I know one term doesn’t make a rule, but I’ve found the term [Seattle Real Estate Blog] to be great for testing out the search engines [...]

… RealEstateVoices?    I say keep fighting…

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…if I can get Jay’s article ranked in Google for homes.com service.

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In a recent email, someone asked me the following four questions about starting group blogs around different real estate themes:

Do you think it’s a good idea to charge authors a fee, even a nominal fee, to post articles on a blog?
What are your thoughts about selling ads (e.g. banners), including Google ads, around a blog?
I’m [...]

…in the battle against sploggers reminds me of when Robbie took on the same problem.   Take home lesson: Fight ‘em with images!

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…that Seth has gone years without a spam filter on email. He talks about two messages getting “caught”by the spam filter in 14 hours. I know that if I had to glance through hundreds of messages visually every day, I’d probably have so many more “false hits” in that I’d [...]

Spam quote of the day: “Your website can literally generate leads while your sleeping!”
Where to begin?

Factual? Websites do not generate leads! Your marketing generates leads.
Grammatical? “your” or “you’re”? “literally” or “figuratively”?
Understanding? “while you’re sleeping”??? Duh! News Flash: Websites continue to push out pages even when you sleep!!! If this is news to [...]