Real Estate Blog Lab

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A couple of Observation about Tracking Traffic
How many different traffic tracking systems does one blog need?  It seems like everyone wants to track my traffic and report on it.

Feedburner
MyBlogLog
Google Analytics
Hittail
Woopra

These are a few that come to mind without even [...]

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Real Estate Blog Lab loses PR5 to PR4
Many Well Known Blogs Loose PR in this Update
It was April 28, 2008 when I last reported a PR update.  That was when we gained our first PR5 ranking.  It felt wonderful having that first PR5 and is hard to give up today.  But Google giveth and Google [...]

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Bread and Salad Can Kill a Google Bot
Or you could say:
Where’s The MEAT
I look at page source code all the time.  I want to know how many lines of code a search engine bot has to navigate before it gets to the meat.
How often do you check your page source for you site?  Never?  That’s [...]

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I’ve slowed down the release of the posts in the series on Wordpress Theme Checklist. I wanted to take some time and read a new book out on Wordpress Theme Design by Tessa Blakeley Silver

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There are a couple of major changes in CSS styles that will need to be incorporated into your blog if you are going to use the new caption class and the image class for your blog posts. This is due to the change from align=”right” etc. to img class =”alignright”.

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Yes, I upgraded to 2.6. I HATE WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE VISUAL EDITOR
First, Flock browser won’t even let me log back into the admin panel after the 2.6 upgrade.
Worse AND I MEAN HORRIBLE WORSE is the removing of the “Insert Image” icon from the Visual Editor.
WHAT IDIOT CAME UP WITH REMOVING [...]

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Where the Magic Happens
Learning how to work with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is like learning to drive a stick shift. If you can edit and modify CSS style sheets you can drive anything. If I find a theme that has “good bones” I can usually modify it to appear in the browser the [...]

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A while back I wrote A Fable Do Follow and Comments when I installed the Do Follow Plug-in. I’ve noticed more and more comments which have nothing to do with the post. They found the blog lab on a do follow blog list and all they want is a link.

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I’m declaring this to be “Clean-up Un-used Plug-ins Month”
I know I didn’t need the hyphens. I’m trying to be a little creative as a Dial-up Geek.
I’m always installing new plug-ins here at the lab to test and see if they will add functionality or enhance the presentation of the blog.
However, sometimes I don’t have a [...]

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