Real Estate Blog Lab

When I first started blogging about 18 months ago I heard the term “splog” from time to time in a rather derogatory manner. I had no idea what splogging and scrapping were all about. Then I heard the term “Content Thieves” now that made sense.

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I was in my Google Webmaster Tools yesterday clicking around as the PR update continues to make its way from data center to data center. I’ve often found a correlation between PR updates and “New Google Toys” to play with in the Webmaster Tools. Content Analysis with emphasis on Meta Tags and more.

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I wasn’t expecting a PR update from Google this soon. The last was longer coming than most of us thought and now there is another so soon. I started noticing the change in some of my sites on Tuesday Feb. 27, 2008. It is continuing to sweep over the data centers as the update continues.

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I remember when I first got started blogging I read everywhere. “To get a high pagerank you have to get quality back-links.”
True, and a good piece of advise. How do you do that? “Write quality content that people want to link back to” Sounds good so far doesn’t it.

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What a mouthful. I am a hyper local blogger at heart. It is the focus of my writing and the time I spend studying how to get these blogs in front of new readers and provide valuable information about my real estate market and the community in which I live and work.

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PicLens is hard to describe until you try it and once you do you will never look at images the same way again. You can’t use it to view all images (YET) but we can only hope. It works with IE 6+ Firefox (Windows and Mac) or Safari browsers. It works with Google Images, Flickr, Yahoo, and more.

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You can in some cases get a post that isn’t indexed found in search engine results. Is that cool or what!

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