Real Estate Blog Lab

The last post here at the Lab talked about using flickr slide shows to add a collection of large images to a blog post without taking up additional bandwidth or storage space on your hosting account.

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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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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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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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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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What the heck, it is just a hobby blog, right! So I pulled the plug and upgraded to 2.5. I might even be so bold as to try and add an image to this post. WOW, going out on a limb there hey.

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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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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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Google went away from the supplemental indexing or at least from reporting the supplemental results. Which left some of us wondering what might be going on. Personally I like having everything in the index or at least most pages and post are doing better these days.

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