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Entries from December 2006

I Survived A Bubble Blog Attack Badge

December 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over the past few days we had one of our posts about Tucson Housing Bust come under attack by a couple of Bubble Blogs.  It is our first, and we survived. 
Being attacked by a bubble blog seems to be [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Hittail, A Peek Behind The Curtain

December 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments

I actually was using Hittail for quite some time before Mary at RSS Pieces mentioned it in her Top 10 Best SEO Web Tools.  There are a lot of good tools mentioned on that post.  I have used some of them and I’ve bookmarked that post and go back to it often.
I imagine that most [...]

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Urinal Marketing

December 21st, 2006 · 8 Comments

Now this is what I call a man dedicated to marketing.  Notice his card is for “Affordable Health Package”.  So if you feel like things aren’t coming out as you had hoped at the moment, you have before you an opportunity to upgrade your health care to something more affordable.
I would recommend you wait to [...]

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Tags: How To

Permalinks SEO and Keywords in the URL

December 19th, 2006 · 11 Comments

I have read that it is a good idea to have your keywords in the url.  For a long time I didn’t know what that meant. Ok, so I’m old and not as quick to pick-up on somethings, but once I get it, I don’t let go of it easily.  Sometimes it is hard to [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · SEO · Setup

Tiga Theme looses Formatting.

December 19th, 2006 · 7 Comments

I’m using the Tiga theme for Wordpress on this blog and 6 others.  I like the theme and the flexibilty using the Tigarator (anyboby else thinking Arnold here) for formatting the look of the blog quickly and easily. 
There is one big bug.  If you change the Permalinks to anything but the default the entire theme looses [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Setup

RSS Chicklets in Sidebar Widget

December 18th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Wait a miniute I thought I already read this, but now it is different.  Have you ever watched a movie over and found out they changed the ending on you since you last saw it.  Well I’m changing this entire post.
If RSS Feeds are a mystery to you then welcome to the party.  It seems there are certain [...]

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Mary, Mary, not contrary, how does your MeMe Grow

December 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Maureen Francis tagged me for the latest round of contagion going around.  This virus was started in another part of the blogosphere when it hit Mary McKnight at RSS Pieces it mutated quickly and began infecting the real estate blog continent.
Being very new in this community I thought I was safe from the virus.  Not many [...]

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Tags: Blogging In General · Real Estate Blogging

Accessibility Widget | A Blessing for Older Eyes

December 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment

UPDATE:  This widget may be missing,  But here is a post you might want your readers to be aware of
Control Key Plus Scroll Equals BIGGER TEXT
I’m not going to say how old my eyes are, lets just say the more light in a room the better they like it. Here in the lab I’m [...]

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Tags: Plug-ins · Real Estate Blogging

MyBlogLog Widget Code Produces W3C Errors

December 13th, 2006 · 14 Comments

Sellsius introduced me and many others in our community to MyBlogLog.  I fell in love with this widget and I know many others have as well.  It is a lot of fun to see who has been reading, or at least visiting your blog.
MyBlogLog has really taken off with more people joining and joining [...]

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Tags: Plug-ins · Real Estate Blogging · SEO

Another Real Estate Blog Are You Kidding Me?

December 13th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Another real estate blog, but this isn’t like any other real estate blog that I’ve found.  It will have elements of many great blogs about real estate and real estate blogging.  It is to fill a nitch in real estate blogging.
It is born out of the comments and council of real estate bloggers that helped [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Setup