Real Estate Blog Lab

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Why do I want Meta Tags In the Head
At one time these tags had great significance in search engine placement, (Web 1.0). Since it is now generally believed they are for the most part ignored by the search [...]

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Wordpress 2.3 Tagging
I’m the last person that should be trying to explain tagging in Wordpress. I’ve spent the better part of two days trying to duplicate the way I had tagging set up in the earlier version of Wordpress. It took a great deal of searching but I think I finally have a [...]

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WORDPRESS 2.3 BREAKS MORE THAN IT FIXES BE WARNED!
Yep, I did it. I upgraded the lab this afternoon and there is debris and smoke everywhere. The kids making these version must never test some of the basic functionality. You would think they were throwing hand grenades and calling it “Close Enough” lets [...]

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There is a lot of hype about the release tomorrow of WordPress 2.3. There are parties being planned, it is a big roll out.
They have done a much better job of explaining what is going to happen and what plugins work and which ones do not. Check this list of working and non-working [...]

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Have you ever tried to grow peas in a day? Did you know you can do it?

Layout the rows
Dig up the soil
Mix into the soil manure and potting soil (Home Depot has both)
make a row with the edge of a hoe
space the peas to be grown about 10 to 12 inches apart
Cover with about [...]

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Calling all Real Estate bloggers, especially the Geeks. Here is your chance to be in on the ground floor of cutting edge technology in Search Engines.
You can sign-up to be one of the first RE bloggers to enter the Powerset Labs. Meaning, you are an alpha or beta tester.
I just signed up myself. [...]

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Do you have a philosophy for your blog? Have you ever thought about it. Are you trying to tell a story about your community? Are you drawing a word picture of life in your community?
The Lab is more oriented to be topic driven. RE Bloggers, specifically leaning toward self hosted Wordpress [...]

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Recently Eric on Search was doing a little insightful thinking about the continued indexing of the pages at realestateweblogging101. He suggested that the internal linking structure was one of the things helping keep these pages in the Google active index.
Every page on the site had a link to the other pages on the site [...]

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The post “When Your Website Doesn’t Look Right” dealt with making sure your site displayed properly in multiple browsers. I still run into a lot of sites that look fine in Fire Fox but are broken in IE 6 or 7. It usually has to do with the overflow float issue IE is [...]

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More Fun with Animoto
I made these earlier today then had to do an open house. I’m pretty sure they are the First Hip Hop Virtual Tours In Tucson.
Two versions of the same home at 1635 Deer Shadow Lane in La Reserve.

The second ever Tucson Hip Hop Virtual Tour

I hope no one gets hurt either [...]

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