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Entries from February 2007

Single Property Sites - A Time-shift Open House

February 13th, 2007 · 8 Comments

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One of the greatest things to come along is the ability to see some of our favorite televisions shows when ever we want.  Time shifting isn’t new, with VCR’s people have been practicing time shifting for a couple of [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Single Listings

Check Your Permalinks with Wordpress 2.1

February 7th, 2007 · No Comments

UPDATE   Here is a great plugin for changing your Permalink structure.  It creates 301 redirects when you change the permalinks.   
I’ve noticed lately that Google was showing a lot of missing URL and URL’s not found and HTTP errors.
I thought most of those were due to the change in domain names mentioned in other posts here.
Today I [...]

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Tags: SEO · Setup

Consolidating URL and A Little Help from Friends

February 2nd, 2007 · 4 Comments

 
The trials and travails of this little experiment have take their toll on sleep and other things in life the past couple of days.  But in barely two month of existence.  Lots of help from 2000 bloggers project and others linking here we broke the 100 barrier.
It does pay to keep track of these things.  [...]

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Tags: SEO · Setup

Help I don’t know what to do (Site URL Change) :)

February 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

 Ever Find Your Self in a Pickle?
(UPDATE!)  I SEEM TO HAVE HIT THE RIGHT COMBINATION AND ALLOWING TIME FOR RESET.  I HAVE TO CHANGE THE URL FOR IMAGES IN POSTS.  IT SEEMS OTHER THAN THAT ALL IS WORKING AS IT SHOULD. 
I’M LEARNING TO HATE IE LIKE SO MANY OTHERS THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE. 
THANKS [...]

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Tags: Setup

Your URL-Technorati Rank and Google PageRank

February 1st, 2007 · No Comments

When I first set up the lab one of the first experiments was to see the effect of having more than one URL pointing to the same place.
I know for someone just beginning to figure out their web site/blog they might not know the difference.
In the beginning all we care about is if people can [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Meebo and WC3 Validation Errors

February 1st, 2007 · 5 Comments

Meebo hit the RE Blogging community last week when it started showing up on a lot of the real estate blogs I read everyday. 
I found this Meebo post at 3 Oceans Real Estate by Kevin Boer 
quickly followed by seeing it appear on:
Phoenix AZ Real Estate Blog  Jonathan Dalton
Transparent RE                   Pat Kitano
Tucson Real Estate
I put it on [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Tiga - I Love Ya, but I gotta let you go.

February 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Tiga, of all themes in all the Wordpress world I had to pick you.  You had what I wanted, three columns and most of all a post column 600px wide.  I like large images and room to write.  I’ve looked at many other themes, three column, but just can’t find one with the width for [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Wordpress 2.1 Text Editor Why I hate it

February 1st, 2007 · No Comments

 I’ve spent so much time trying to get 2.1 up and running with the Tiga theme and various plugins I haven’t done much in the way of posting.  Now I’m trying to post and the new editor is biting me hard.  Of course I discover this after saying it might be ok to upgrade to [...]

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Tags: How To · Setup