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Entries from April 2008

Google PR Update Appearing

April 28th, 2008 · 26 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I noticed about twenty minutes ago a change in PR being reported in my toolbar.
The Lab has a PR5 (today).  One of my other blogs has moved from 3 to 4 for the home page.
I haven’t checked any of [...]

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Tags: Blogging In General

WordPress 2.5 More Observations

April 25th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Manage still exists but Options is gone. The Options have been scattered about various places on the Dashboard. Settings, Plugins, Users are now top right. They aren’t on a tab just sitting there to themselves.

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging

Trolling for Links vs Being a Backlink Troll

April 22nd, 2008 · 15 Comments

There are plenty of spammers and short cut artist in the net taking a good tool and using it for less than honorable purposes. So why not take a Trolls tool and use it for a good purpose.
Marc Rasmussen made a good point about wanting to put his efforts into commenting where it will [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Check Your Google Webmaster Tools Often

April 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments

We get busy. It happens. I know because it happens to me. I have a routine I usually go through at the start and the end of the day. It varies little, making sure everything is up and running for the hours I’m shut down.
Sometimes though a piece of that routine [...]

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Tags: Blogging In General

Comment Kahuna Great Way to be Banned

April 19th, 2008 · 16 Comments

Lately, I’ve seen more and more comments coming into the lab and my other RE sites there were obvious to me the post hadn’t been read at all.
Today I ran across this “Free” tool for creating instant great backlinks to your site. The little video created to tell about this “tool” has some obvious [...]

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Tags: Blogging In General

A Tool to Help Pick Keyword Targets

April 10th, 2008 · 23 Comments

Don’t know where to go to find keywords or specifically what keywords to target? Like Zillow

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Comment Spam Not an SEO Shortcut

April 7th, 2008 · 28 Comments

Moderation is turned on for all comments at the blog lab. At least until you have achieved a level of trust that posts your comments as soon as you submit them. Unless they have more than two active links in them, that puts them back in moderation.

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Tags: Blogging In General

Don’t Be A Real Estate Blog John

April 4th, 2008 · 20 Comments

Please, please, please, if you have a blog be a blogger, but don’t have a blog and pay someone to blog for you. It will hurt you more than anything else because in the end you will appear to be a phony.

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Control Key Plus Scroll Equal BIGGER Text

April 3rd, 2008 · 8 Comments

Late to the Party, are you kidding me, for most of my life I didn’t even know there was a party.

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging