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Entries from July 2007

Hittail Search Hits

July 28th, 2007 · 10 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I don’t know how many RE Bloggers are using Hittail. I hope it is alot. I know some of you think you can track your traffic through your RSS reader results or your feedburner reader [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Ping-O-Matic — Connection Time Out!!!

July 26th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Update: As of Friday Noon July 27, 2007 it was working again.
Request Timeout
This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase ‘Connection Timeout’.
You might want to try and send a manual ping [...]

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Tags: Blogging In General

Photos an Overlooked Part of Your Real Estate Blog Traffic

July 24th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Photos on a blog post are cute, sometimes they have nothing to do with the post, sometimes they are stolen and used without permission, but that is a post already written, just not by me. They should enhance the post. Photos are like adding seasoning to the meal. You can eat it [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · SEO

Realivent CMA request Form on the Lab

July 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments

Has anyone found it odd that there is a CMA Request form on the lab?
I thought someone might ask me about it, but I haven’t had anyone inquire about it.
Yep, I’m running another experiment on this CMA Request Plugin from Realivant.
I like the results.

It is easy to install and Activate
Create a page (I suggest using [...]

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Tags: Plug-ins · Real Estate Blogging

A Fable Do Follow and Comments

July 20th, 2007 · 59 Comments

There is  a story told of heaven and hell being exactly alike. 
There are  large banquet tables set with every kind of food and desert imaginable.  Everyone has a fork in their hand that can’t be removed or repositioned.  The Fork is so long you can’t put it in your mouth.
The scene in hell;  everyone is stabbing food [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Zillow Directory of Real Estate Blogs

July 19th, 2007 · 13 Comments

Is Your Real Estate blog listed in the Zillow wiki?
Would you like to be listed? It is free.

Go to the link below
Create an account if you don’t have one
Log in to edit the wiki page
Find the section where your blog belongs
Type in your blog name
Highlight the name you enter
Click the Globe add link at [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Tucson AZ Real Estate Blog

July 18th, 2007 · 16 Comments

More than an experiment a passion.
The premise for the experiment

Setup a new domain name.
Use Wordpress as the basis
Posts & Pages
See how the search engines respond

The process that brought about this new venture is outlines in the posts I’ve written recently in this order:

Real Estate Weblogging 101
A Tucson Realtors Journey in Web Presence
Building a Real Estate [...]

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Tags: Blogging In General · Real Estate Blogging

Building A New Real Estate Blog Site or Refurbish the Existing

July 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Have you ever said, “I wish I had known what I know now when I started all of this”  I’ve said it over and over during the last year.  I’ve continued to make improvements to all the sites we have but there has been this nagging desire to put it all together and see if it [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Real Estate Blogging Hot topic of the Hour

July 16th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Real Estate blogging is the hot topic of the hour.  It will continue to pop up at the top of the charts for the rest of 2007 and into 2008.  Let’s face it Real Estate is tough especially now.  Real Estate Agents everywhere are looking for ways to better market themselves and their services. 
In years [...]

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A Tucson Realtors Journey in Web Presence

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Things have been very busy here at the lab over the last month.  I know the number of posts don’t reflect that, unfortunately some experiments and setting them up takes time to perk and have some results worth sharing.  There are a number of those brewing as I write.
The latest is one of the most exciting [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging