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Entries from October 2007

Wordpress 2.3 and Askimet Approved Comments

October 31st, 2007 · 7 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have moderation turned on for comments on the blog lab.  The setting is for approval of all first time comments and once approved the person making the comments can continue to make comments as long as there are [...]

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Lightbox your way to a quicker load

October 31st, 2007 · 20 Comments

I like big photos. I like them to fill as much of the space on the screen as possible. On an individual post the page size by K isn’t too bad with large images. But when there are 5 to 10 posts on the home page all with images on them, it can bloat the size of your home page and make it very slow to load.

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Tags: Plug-ins · Real Estate Blogging

Supreme Ruler Feasting & PR

October 29th, 2007 · 15 Comments

Need I write or even say the Ruler associated with PR. No not the Price is Right. Some would think it Pretty Risky, or Purposely Ridiculous. It was waited for two month longer than some thought it due.

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Take a little Bounce out of your Bounce Rate

October 13th, 2007 · 41 Comments

We all have high bounce rates. Even the people that say they don’t do. It is inevitable. We can’t control how or when the search engines will place us high on a page for a search. It might not be relevant to the search at all.
Write Relevant Posts
I once write about [...]

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Home Evaluation Sheets to Prevent Cerebral Jello

October 10th, 2007 · 14 Comments

I initially wrote this post for home buyers getting ready to move to Tucson. It’s not a real bells and whistles kind of tool but I think some of you might find a use for it with your buyers. Doug Trudeau at Tucson RE Blogs calls this process of all the listing getting [...]

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Target and Focus Your Local Content

October 8th, 2007 · 17 Comments

I’ve just written about SEO deprogramming; because of the urge to focus most of your time and effort into SEO for your blog. SEO might get people to come to your site, but SEO won’t get them to stay there.
This is referred to as the bounce rate. How many people click to [...]

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SEO De-programmers Needed for RE Bloggers

October 6th, 2007 · 28 Comments

I’m going to count backward from 3 and when I get to 1 I want you to wake up. Here we got 3. . . . 2. . . . 1. . . . WAKE UP!
There is a growing cult in the Real Estate blogging community. It is the Cult of SEO. [...]

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