Real Estate Blog Lab

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last month I wrote about  RSS Widgets under utilized.  One of the suggestions I had for quick, fresh content which could be updated daily was to create an RSS Feed using Twitter Hashtags.  The only thing I didn’t like [...]

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More and more people are using mobile devices to search then net.  Providing a way to have our blogs rendered on mobile devices is something all real estate bloggers should be doing.  The MobilePress plugin is one way to address this NOW.
It has been a couple of months since I started using a Blackberry Curve [...]

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Bounce Rate is usually considered something we can do little about directly.  But there is a plugin which might slow your bounce rate and keep readers on your site longer.
We have all done a search on a term and found the results to be less than on target.  Sometimes instead of the information we are [...]

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I took two of my blogs and merged them into one.  Tucson Real Estate In the News merged with Tucson Real Estate to form a single entity.  The story of the process is documented in Combining Two Blogs in to One A Geeks Holiday Weekend.
I’m not sure when or who but there was a comment [...]

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Graphics are the little touches that make your theme special
Graphics is another place you can really change the look and feel of a blog theme. In case you didn’t know you can replace or tweak those graphics used to trim out a theme. Closely associated with the style.php are the images for the theme. [...]

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A Blog Lab Nugget
You think you have a catchy title for your blog post; keyword rich and sure to be indexed in the first 20 minutes after you publish it.  It is a killer post and a killer title.  You proof read it, honed the sentence structure (Okay I’m kidding).  But here is one more thing [...]

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While at REBlogWorld in Las Vegas I caught a demonstration of the Apture Wordpress Plugin.
If you are in a hurry here is the link to the Apture Tour
Here is the description at the Wordpress Apture page:
“Apture provides the first rich communication platform that allows people to intuitively experience the web.
Publishers and bloggers can quickly and [...]

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Mark Madsen was a little wired up on caffeine and throwing out some great one liners the other day in a comment.  He recommended I come up with a comment spam seal that could be put on comments and then go ahead and publish them.
I had to laugh at first then thought about how we [...]

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On September 12th I wrote about “Hosting Your Own Image Files“, which by the way already has a PR 2 ranking for those following such things : )  In that post I asked about what others were doing for hosting their images.  Self-hosting or using something like Flickr to host your blog images and link [...]

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I was doing some checking back and forth between the settings for one of the Tucson blogs and the Lab and noticed I had the option about no index tabs checked for the Lab and unchecked for the Tucson Blog. I mentioned two days ago about those tags being indexed in Google for that blog.

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