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New Real Estate Forum

December 10, 2009

Real Estate Forum

New Real Estate ForumInteract on our real estate forum

Forums are really great for getting the conversation going. Unlike blogs, visitors can start new threads, ask questions and interact with other Realtor professionals.

Drew and I look forward to your participation in creating a better real estate community.
Here are the current forum discussions:

Advice for new real estate [...]

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Announcing the contest winner

October 15, 2009

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Announcing the contest winnerAnnouncing the winner of a FREE fully optimized WordPress blog!
Not just any blog, a completely custom blog for your real estate business!
After a short delay due to Drew’s bout of flue we are ready to announce the winner. It actually wasn’t easy as we had some really great entries, but at [...]

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How Banks treat home buyers

October 10, 2009

How Banks treat home buyersKris Berg is a blog writter that we have great respect for in the real estate community
Kris writes on her own blog and as a columnist for Inman news. When we saw what she had put togeher here we litrally cracked up!
It would be even funnier if it wasn’t so close to [...]

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How to use video in your blog posts

September 16, 2009

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How to use video in your blog postsWe recommend using a Flip video as a down and dirty camera -
- to capture videos for YouTube and your real estate related blog posts.
We bought a Flip video camera and started taking videos, but the the mistake we made was trying to have the perfect set before we posted them to [...]

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6 Reasons Why Real Estate Brokers Need To Have A Wordpress Blog!

August 26, 2009

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6 Reasons Why Real Estate Brokers Need To Have A Wordpress Blog!We say you should TRASH your company website right now!
And don’t even think of trying to get it back!
Let us tell you why WordPress is the ideal online tech solution for Real Estate Professionals.
So just what makes Wordpress so great?
We have listed 6 reasons [...]

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Changes coming in Google search

August 18, 2009

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Changes coming in Google searchGoogle has spent the last two years reengineering their file and indexing system.
The new system codenamed “Caffeine” moves search results as close to real time indexing as they can.
It looks like this will help real estate bloggers who post new articles regularly and have deep related property and neighborhood content [...]

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New keyword research video series

August 14, 2009

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New keyword research video seriesIf you don’t know which real estate keyword phrases to target,

you might as well go and stand in the corner right now!

Understanding which real estate and neighborhood key words and keyword phrases to work into your blog posts and pages is critical to your sucess on the web.
Get this part wrong [...]

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Add a school finder to your real estate site

August 11, 2009

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Add a school finder to your real estate siteWhat are real estate buyers looking for on the web?
One set of information is often schools, so why not add this function to your site? Education.com makes it really easy to configure a school search widget and embed the resulting code in your site.
They even offer a WordPress [...]

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Professional Logo Design at great rates

July 16, 2009

Professional Logo Design at great ratesGet A Professional Real Estate Logo
Imagine being able to hire a team of 4-5 professional graphic designers to work on your Realtor logo design project….
Now imagine paying only $149 to have this team design the perfect logo for you…
… with the Logo Design Team this is exactly what you get and [...]

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5 Reasons Realtors Fail Online

July 8, 2009

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5 Reasons Realtors Fail OnlinePoor Focus can really equal Online Failure for Realtors
Some of you may already be on the top of the search engine results …
… but wondering why you are not capturing leads from your site; here are 5 reasons you may be failing online. Being on the top of search results does not [...]

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Is Google ignoring your site?

July 2, 2009

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Is Google ignoring your site?Special Offer from Web Real Estate Tools

If you aren’t on the first page of Google for your neighborhood search terms you are missing out on tons of web traffic.
What’s even worse is that you are missing out on hundreds of qualified leads month after month.
We’ve all been approached by so-called SEO [...]

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San Diego Realtors, visit with us

June 30, 2009

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San Diego Realtors, visit with usFree technology class for San Diego Realtors …
Not so much teaching as mentoring – learn from active Realtors Drew Burks, San Diego Association of Realtors Broker of the year and Peter Toner self proclaimed blog guru.
The goal is to share some of our proven ideas and philosphies with you that will [...]

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How we rank in the search engines

June 29, 2009

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How we rank in the search enginesWe would like to share some of our search engine results with you ..
Why?
Unless we can perform we are not walking the talk and because if we are not relevant what good are we? …
So, without further adooo here is a small selection of recent search engine results:
Format wordpress [...]

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Mobile Marketing for Realtors

June 24, 2009

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Mobile Marketing for RealtorsSay NO to Property Listing Flyers…
Imagine the ability to follow up with every prospect who calls on your listings. Imagine never getting that call from the seller to come out and fill the flyer box with new flyers.
Imagine being able to contact every prospect who ever called on your listing to notify [...]

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What kind of tail do you have?

June 5, 2009

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What kind of tail do you have?Can a Realtor dominate their market area on the internet …
… with a brand new real estate focused blog site? The answer is YES! Let me show you one very simple but effective way to increase the quality of your web traffic.
Focus on a niche and the long tail keywords [...]

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6 new “must have” free tools for real estate

June 4, 2009

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6 new “must have” free tools for real estate6 new "must have" free tools for real estate
Lots of WordPress bloggers use Google Analytics but you don’t get to see today’s visitors – enter Polaris a desktop widget that interacts with your Google Analytics account. With 8 reports it’s the easiest way keep keep track of visitor counts [...]

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Carnival of Real Estate – May 26, 2009

May 26, 2009

Carnival of Real Estate – May 26, 2009Welcome to the May 26, 2009 edition of carnival of real estate.
We know the Carnival of Real Estate hasn’t been around as long as the Indy 500 …

… but both had a few crash and burn accidents this weekend!
Web Real Estate Tools is honored to be the Hosting [...]

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ActiveRain & Trulia suck

May 21, 2009

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ActiveRain & Trulia suckActually ActiveRain & Trulia both REALLY suck…
ActiveRain and Trulia suck Realtor’s time, energy and resources, real estate agents also have a tendency to lurk on: Zillow advice, Realtor.com Blogs, Homegain Blogs and Yahoo Answers hoping to get lucky and trip over a lead.
Most of these companies have raised a great deal of [...]

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Is spying on your visitors ethical?

May 13, 2009

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Is spying on your visitors ethical?There are lots of analytical programs out there ..
…. the most well know being Google’s free analytic’s program and no one seems to have a problem with this service including lots of real estate agents.
Now there is a new app called Clixpy which allows site owners to record how [...]

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Free IDX for your real estate site!

May 5, 2009

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Free IDX for your real estate site!Free IDX for your real estate website or blog …

… from RealtySoft. You can see for yourself the IDX real estate search in action on one of our Platinum members sites.

For free this is an excellent way to add an IDX real esta te search page to multiple niche [...]

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One down, three to go ….

April 14, 2009

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One down, three to go ….With the first quarter of 2009 just past …
…. it’s a great time for Realtors to take a moment and review their local area sales results and activities.
The MLS is a great place to begin this research –
- MLS content is believed to be one of the most valuable databases in [...]

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Google tools for your site

March 30, 2009

The Google team has provided a series of videos for site owners to interact with Google

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