of all the great news and views from this past week by far our favorite is the announcement of brendan picha from squareoak joining the collective thoughts team welcome aboard brendan beyond that we have funnies tridimensional conversations and hyperconnectivity to keep the head spinning and the belly aching. also new this week is tims idea that we each pass along some thoughts for the week we hop...
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best wishes mary as you move on to new adventures.a and 1parkplace just got a lot more interesting.......
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the demand for new and original real estate content is insatiable . duplicat e content is making its way around the real estate blog world and i am trying to determine if this is a necessarily bad thing. there are myriad discussions and opinions about duplicate contents impact on search engine results. google had a recent blog post specifically addressing duplicate content due to scrapers. one of th...
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learn to blog small business trendsthis spring and summer i will be teaching classes in blogging rss and online marketing at the university of akron where i am a parttime instructor. if simple ology the simple science of getting what you wantm y name is mark joyner and its true im an official blogging moron. it took me 6 years to figure out that blogging was significant. this is just a freakin ...
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reputation management 101. real estate bloggers are not unionized but we do have a tendency to unite when appropriate. this is one of those times. for more start at gregs post and joes and go from there. support vladzablotskyys defensefunddefend your own right to freespeech......
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daily search coverage yahoo adds ads for you and bills you also. google does hot air balloon. delete posts in google reader. google fixes webmaster communication. yahoo does tons of deals today. microsoft does search charity. plus tons and tons of conference coverage. search engine roundtable topics yahoo can legally create or change your search ads bill you for it googles full of hot...
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having served as a marketing director for one of the largest brokerages in the carolinas and among the top 50 of prudential affiliates ive had a front row seat to how sales professionals market themselves and their clients properties and i am constantly surprised by how agents fail to embrace the internet. there are any number of reasons for this from your average agent being of the older generat...
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xhtml sitemap validation tool allows you to xhtml validate your entire sitemap in one click unlike the w3c markup validation service that lets you validate one page at a time. this tool is also needed because xhtml validation is very important in the manner of seo. a after releasing it a few days ago rob white from httpwww.ja cquelinewh ite.co.uk wrote us that he had problems validating his site. ch...
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how to put your real estate blog on the first page of google and go from a pr 0 to a pr 5 in 2.5 months by mary mcknight.......
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why commenting for traffic and backlinks to your real estate blog is a waste of time by mary mcknight.......
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wake up real estate bloggers there is no money in the long tail of search for niche blogs so stop chasing it by mary mcknight.......
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how to use googles zeitgeist to get more traffic to your mortgage blog or real estate blog by mary mcknight.......
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should you use a ghost blogger to help build content for your real estate blog by mary mcknight.......
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how to use demographics to craft real estate blog posts that target your readers by mary mcknight.......
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from the horses mouth what google says about content relevancy to search terms in its leaked training manual by mary mcknight.......
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real estate blogs are stores not newspapers so blog like you are selling houses not writing for your local paper by mary mcknight.......
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mary and especially glad she didnt share any of the stories more notes from retechsouth retech south widgets plugins and tools retech south roundup blogging for alpharetta real estate has lighter side retechsouth its a great time to blog the future of real estate and technology is now my personal takeaways from the retechsouth conference retechsou th conference 2.0 and how could i forget i had...
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just wanted to give you a quick update on the diverging worlds of real estate and technology. i realize that most real estate agents are not very techsavvy and thats a huge benefit for my clients when either buying or selling their smyrna vinings homes condos or townhomes. to think that 92 of home buyers between the ages of 2545 use the internet during their home search you cant argue that technol...
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whats the difference between a sitemap and a google sitemap and how can i use them to rank better by mary mcknight.......
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1 month of blog topics ultimate guide to building real estate blog content that gets results by mary mcknight.......
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spider posts how to write efficiently on your real estate blog make one blog post last for a week by mary mcknight.......
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driving qualified traffic to your site through the search engines will increase your traffic to lead conversion ratio by mary mcknight.......
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i got an email this morning with a question ive received many times in different formats so i figured it was worthy of a blog post hello dustin i am just reading the article in the realtor mag. i would like to talk with you about blogging. how do you set it up to connect to your web site is it easy are their any cost i broke your question into two parts. part 1 how do you set it up to connect ...
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things losers say seo doesnt matter fact ranking 1 in google can improve your real estate leads by 600 by mary mcknight.......
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how to get .edu backlinks the holy grail of backlinks by mary mcknight.......
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