Most real estate websites are designed for the sole purpose of attracting only the REALTORS who will buy the sites; they do little to garner favor with search engines. If the search engines won’t find those sites, potential customers won’t either! Put your site on a platform used by Fortune 500 companies. [Read more...]
December 11, 2009 By 15 Comments
Fortune 500 companies use WordPress!
Do you think Fortune 500 companies use template and frame sites that are used by most real estate website development companies like Z57 and Advanced Acces? Not very likely! They know that template sites are loaded with clunky code and are very difficult to optimize for search engine performance. [Read more...]
December 11, 2009 By 9 Comments
Google says good things about WordPress!
Matt Cutts is the head of the Webspam Department at Google. The Webspam Department is responsible for ensuring that only quality sites rank well in Google search engine results. [Read more...]
September 25, 2009 By 4 Comments
You do not need to use your brain for your WordPress real estate website. (Part 1)
Cat got your tongue? Got writer’s cramp? Brain dead? Here’s the good news:
You don’t have to use your brain to come up with ideas for your real estate blog. Let others use their brains to come up with content. Here are a few ways to do it. [Read more...]
March 18, 2009 By 36 Comments
Really dumb grammar mistakes. (Part 1)
I would like to preface this article by saying that REALTORS who make grammar mistakes are not necessarily dumb. If you are writing copy for your real estate website, you can bend the rules under the cover of “artistic license.” [Read more...]
December 27, 2008 By 54 Comments
Are you in love with your own real estate website?
Well, you shouldn’t be. After all, no one else is in love with your website. I know your visitors certainly are not. Don’t worry. I’m sure no one is in love with my own real estate website either. Of course, if your real estate website is actually generating business, then it might be OK for you to be in love with it. [Read more...]
October 26, 2008 By 29 Comments
Do you email when drunk?
Do you like to stay up late at night and crank out emails? Perhaps you like to “tip a few” while you compose those messages. Maybe when you wake up the next morning, you rummage through your “sent” box to see what you did. Maybe you wrote something lurid to the wife of your office manager.
Maybe you even gave away valuable secrets, like access to your MySQL database. Perhaps you wrote something embarrassing to an ex-spouse. Did you send some death threats to your least favorite politician? Maybe that email you can’t remember sending will someday be called “Exhibit A” by the District Attorney. You might even get a visit from the Secret Service. [Read more...]
August 19, 2008 By 16 Comments
Do you use wordpress plugins? Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!
If you have a WordPress blog, there is a 99% chance that you use wordpress plugins. If you develop your own sites, you already know what they are, and you probably are familiar with at least a handful. If someone does your web development for you, you still enjoy the benefits of plugins that do everything from managing comment spam to generating forms pages. [Read more...]
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