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Easy Way to Resize Photos for Wordpress

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If you have a Wordpress real estate website, you obviously will be installing plenty of listing photos.  Some of you might not have Adobe Photoshop or other photo editors installed on your computer.  You might have  Adobe photoshop, but if you are an old goat like me, you might find it overwhelming and don’t have [...]

Canonical Issues or “What the Heck is the Name of this Site?

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I used to think that only the Vatican had “canonical” issues. I guess that’s because I am Catholic, and never new of any other institution that would spell “canon” with only one “n.” Well it turns out, Google may have canonical issues with your site. It has something to do with how [...]

Getting Your Posts Indexed

Tips for Noobs

Be sure that your posts are long enough.
Ernest Hemingway (when he still had a head) bet a guy he met in a bar that he could write a compelling story with just six words. The bar patron took him up on it. Ernest won the bet. Here is the story:
“Baby shoes for [...]

Does Size Matter?

Tips for Noobs

How long should a blog post be? Is bigger really better? Yes. No. Do you think I frequently give self-contradictory advice?
Yes. No. Maybe.
How Long Should Your Post Be?
Keep in mind that search engines don’t spell out exactly what they are looking for, so search engine optimization becomes a mixture of common sense, conjecture, word-of-mouth, advice [...]

Photo Tag Shortcuts

Tips for Noobs

The problem with your business is that everyone tells you something different.
- Yoda (or someone like him.)
Google can’t tell what a photo is about unless you tell it what it is about. On your Wordpress 2.5, there are fields like “title” (for the PHOTO, not the page) and “caption” (alt tag).

Any Spam on Your Site?

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Most of us think of “spam” as all of those unwanted emails from casinos, porn, or drug sellers that fill up our mailbox. Actually, “spam” is a catch-all phrase that includes any kind of junk on the internet, including garbage webpage content and “black hat seo” schemes. Webmasters do plenty of it. [...]

Why do I keep seeing my old site on my other computer?

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Q. I just built a new site on a test link at Bluehost.com. I re-directed the name server for my url from my old site to my new site. It looks great on my computer at home. When I go to my office I just keep getting redirected to the old [...]

About Your Home Page.

Tips for Noobs

You don’t have to be a genius to know that your home page is your most important page. In spite of all of the wonderful content you include in your interior pages, most often your home page will be the page to rank in the search engines for keywords that are important to you.
If [...]

Submit your site to these places….

For REALTORS

Directory submission is one way to get backlinks to your site, although frequently the links are of dubious quality. Google favors sites that have quality backlinks. The quality and amount of link juice you get from these directories is hit-and-miss. Here are some quality sites that have excellent page rank: