Real Estate Blog Lab

It is impressive to the buyer’s agent, it is impressive to the buyers themselves and it is impressive to your clients when they see how well their home is being marketed online. Win, Win, Win.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Single Property websites don’t have to be a conundrum.  Kevin Boer  is debating the issue with himself I might add.  He is getting some great resources from Matt Dunlap at Realivant. 
Honestly done right, there should be on conundrum about single [...]

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The Sidebar Widget is essential for quicklysetting up my property sites.  This means that I usually pick themes that are already widgetized. Once you activate the plugin go to the presentation tab.  There you will see the Sidebar Widget listed.
I like having three column layouts for single property sites.  I’ll go into the why in the theme’s post. 
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“Remember that every agent’s livelihood and ultimate goal is to have as many signs in the ground and as much advertising as possible. The signs and advertising bring more listing leads and buyer leads, which puts more money in the agent’s pocket.”   Taken from Real/diablog - tomorrows real estate trends the post titled:  ”Agents “Buying [...]

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I have searched, and struggled and spent many hours working with various plugins for Wordpress to display maps and links the way I want them.  I’ve finally found the solution that fits for what I want in a mapping for my sites,  it is YourGMap. 
I don’t know about you but I hate reading post or [...]

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Plugins really make setting up a single property site much easier.  One Plugin I use heavily is the Sidebar Widget plugin, when you chose a theme you want to make sure it is “Widget ready” or “widgetized”  if not you will need to know how to go in and modify the theme code to include [...]

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There are two types of categories

Categories for organizing your posts
Categories for organizing your blogroll (links)

Wordpress 2.1 changed the way it handles categories behind the scenes and now allows you to create them on the fly. For our purposes they haven’t changed a great deal. For SEO purposes here are my suggestions for Category [...]

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Setting up the wp-configure.php file
Before you can install Wordpress you have to have a valid MYSQL database setup and you have to create the wp-configure.php file.
Here is the current place to go to get The latest version of Wordpress.
Wordpress comes with a wp-sample-configure.php file.  You can open this using notepad if you don’t have a [...]

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This will probably be the most boring post in the series.  I’ll be covering:
 For the purpose of these post we are going to use the address 123 MyStreet
Disclaimer: The only association I have with GoDaddy.com is as a customer.
I’m using Godaddy.com for all my hosting.  They are the only hosting company I have ever used.  [...]

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Lights, Camera, Action, Sound . . .  Yeah I added sound, don’t want to be completely cliche ridden.
We are in a video world. One of the amazing things to me is the acceptablility of very poor quality video when viewing it on the net.
All I hear is “High Def” this and “High Def” that.  The [...]

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