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The Real Estate Blog Lab The Real Estate Blog Lab The Real Estate Blog Lab is a laboratory created for Real Estate Bloggers. It is where RE bloggers can come for ideas and information on plugins, new widgets, single property sites and tutorials. Articles
Google Search Results faster than a speeding nanite
2007-08-03 20:19:00 Do you check your posts when you published? I have a routine when I publish a new post. Especially now that I’m tracking the test site Tucson AZ Real Estate. The routine is as follows: Publish the post Ping (now using autopinger, it pings Google ) Wait 15 minutes Go to blogsearch.google.com and search the title tag If not ... More About: Results , Search , Google Search , Speeding
Ping-O-Matic ? Connection Time Out!!!
2007-07-26 16:52:00 Request Time out This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase ‘Connection Timeout’. You might want to try and send a manual ping for your site! I’m getting connection time out error meaning ... More About: Time Out , Ping
Photos an Overlooked Part of Your Real Estate Blog Traffic
2007-07-24 22:27:00 Photos on a blog post are cute, sometimes they have nothing to do with the post, sometimes they are stolen and used without permission, but that is a post already written, just not by me. They should enhance the post. Photos are like adding seasoning to the meal. You can eat it ... More About: Blog Traffic , Photos , Estate , Real Estate , Traffic
Realivent CMA request Form on the Lab
2007-07-23 21:26:00 Has anyone found it odd that there is a CMA Request form on the lab? I thought someone might ask me about it, but I haven’t had anyone inquire about it. Yep, I’m running another experiment on this CMA Request Plugin from Realivant. I like the results. It is easy to install and Activate Create a page (I suggest using ... More About: Plug-ins , Form , Alive , Vent
A Fable Do Follow and Comments
2007-07-21 05:11:00 There is a story told of heaven and hell being exactly alike. There are large banquet tables set with every kind of food and desert imaginable. Everyone has a fork in their hand that can’t be removed or repositioned. The Fork is so long you can’t put it in your mouth. The scene in hell; everyone is stabbing food ... More About: Comments , Fable
Zillow Directory of Real Estate Blogs
2007-07-19 16:46:00 Is Your Real Estate blog listed in the Zillow wiki? Would you like to be listed? It is free. Go to the link below Create an account if you don’t have one Log in to edit the wiki page Find the section where your blog belongs Type in your blog name Highlight the name you enter Click the Globe add link at ... More About: Real Estate , Blogs , Directory
Tucson AZ Real Estate Blog
2007-07-18 22:25:00 More than an experiment a passion. The premise for the experiment Setup a new domain name. Use Wordpress as the basis Posts & Pages See how the search engines respond The process that brought about this new venture is outlines in the posts I’ve written recently in this order: Real Estate Weblogging 101 A Tucson Realtors Journey in Web Presence Building a Real Estate Blog Site ...
Building A New Real Estate Blog Site or Refurbish the Existing
2007-07-18 04:16:00 Have you ever said, “I wish I had known what I know now when I started all of this” I’ve said it over and over during the last year. I’ve continued to make improvements to all the sites we have but there has been this nagging desire to put it all together and see if it ... More About: Building , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Site
Real Estate Blogging Hot topic of the Hour
2007-07-17 01:24:00 Real Estate blogging is the hot topic of the hour. It will continue to pop up at the top of the charts for the rest of 2007 and into 2008. Let’s face it Real Estate is tough especially now. Real Estate Agents everywhere are looking for ways to better market themselves and their services. In years ... More About: Blogging , Hot Topic , Topic
A Tucson Realtors Journey in Web Presence
2007-07-16 23:06:00 Things have been very busy here at the lab over the last month. I know the number of posts don’t reflect that, unfortunately some experiments and setting them up takes time to perk and have some results worth sharing. There are a number of those brewing as I write. The latest is one of the most exciting ... More About: Realtors , Journey , Tucson , Presence
Real Estate Weblogging 101
2007-07-12 03:11:00 Greg Swann at Bloodhound blog on June 21, 2007 launched the new blog Real Estate Weblogging 101. What Greg didn’t realize was he also set in motion an experiment I have been wanting to run here in the lab. Here is the basis for the experiment: Setup a new domain name. Use Wordpress as the basis Instead of Post use Pages See ... More About: Real Estate , Stat , Blogg
Wordpress Spellchecker Issues?
2007-06-29 04:44:00 I know some Wordpress bloggers have had an issue with getting the Wordpress Spellchecker to work.I first encountered this gem when I upgraded to Wordpress 2.0 The only thing about it, it only worked in Firefox, not IE6. It would show the misspells, and show the list, but it wouldn’t replace the text. So I ... More About: Issues , Hecker , Issue , Checker
Google Dance Update
2007-06-28 08:31:00 Any body feeling the effects of the Googl e Dance on the last update a few days ago? I’ve read about an update taking place on a couple of forums. Many seem to have noticed some big changes in their rankings for key search terms. Most were not happy with the new results. I’ve noticed some brand ... More About: Update , Google Dance
Wordpress 2.2.1 Upgrade
2007-06-28 01:02:00 Today I took the plunge once again and upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress 2.2.1 here at the lab. I don’t know about you but these things make me nervous every time I do them. As you can see I’m giving roses for this mini upgrade, for all except the spellchecker. There were ... More About: Setup
Photo Evny Not a Pretty Thing
2007-06-27 21:24:00 I’ll admit it. I have a bad case of Photo envy. I try not to give into it, but even at night while I sleep, it is in my dreams, haunting me, taunting me with it colors, prospective, and composition. I don’t even need a computer to see it, This image is etched in my ... More About: Pretty , Thing
Plugoo vs Meebo
2007-06-11 19:52:00 The other night I was getting the Scoop on Michigan Real Estate when I noticed Maureen had a new IM thingy (technical term) on her blog. Plugoo isn’t a plug-in. It is a script that I put in a text box in the widgets setup screen once the Plugoo account was setup. You can see it at the bottom of ... More About: Setup , Meebo , Plug-ins
Share This Social Bookmarking Plug-in
2007-06-05 22:50:00 Have you seen this symbol on blog posts? It is usually located at the bottom of the post, but it can be put anywhere you want to display it, within reason of course. This is from Alex King’s blog. It was about creating an icon for his share this plug-in. There have been a lot ... More About: Social , Social Bookmarking , Share , Plug-ins , Bookmarking
Wordpress 2.2 upgrade for Real Estate Blog Lab
2007-05-20 03:41:00 Early this morning, I took the Lab up to Wordpress 2.2. I did the 5 step process as recommended. Backup all the files Deactivate all the plug-ins Install the new files overwriting the old ones Run upgrade.php Re-activate the plug-ins I will say this upgrade has been the one causing the least issues of any major upgrade I’ve done. The ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blog , Setup
MyAvatars-Plugin for MyBlogLog Missing!
2007-05-20 02:44:00 Sometime on May 18th I noticed all the avatars for mybloglog suddenly disappeared from all my blogs comments. Oh, My!! I quickly changed from IE to FF and they were still missing. I changed to another computer, gone. I un-installed re-installed upgraded to 0.02a Nothing, they are gone. I’ve left the plugin creator a message that the avatars have escaped. ... More About: Plugin , Missing , Plug-ins , Missi
Clean Archives Plugin One Cool Geek with Laptop
2007-05-18 21:23:00 Almost everyday I hit the links at the bottom of the dashboard page and check the new plugins and themes available for Wordpress. On May 16 in the plugins post there was an archives plugin mentioned. I had just been setting up a new theme one of our listings and found it had the ability to create ... More About: Laptop , Cool , Plugin , Clean , Geek
Google Indexed and How
2007-05-14 16:18:00 Keeping three blogs up and running on a weekly basis keeps me hoping along with trying to work in the Tucson Real Estate market. I’ve been reading some posts lately on SEO for your blog and one of the interesting suggestions I came across was making sure you only put a post in a single category. This ... More About: Google , Index , Googl
Using the del.icio.us plugin
2007-05-05 17:33:00 The sidebar widget is a wonderful thing. It makes it so easy to change the layout of your sidebars and add additional widgets without having to write a single line of code. I wrote about the Sidebar Widget on single property sites. Included in with the sidebar widget is the del.icio.us plugin. I use this little ... More About: Plugin , Sing , Plug , The D
Building a Google Trustbox
2007-04-26 04:31:00 The discussion of the Google Sandbox goes on and on. Some say it doesn’t exist, other say it does most certainly exist. Lately I’ve read some are calling it the Trust box and not a Sandbox. Trustbox makes sense. I think you can build a Google Trustbox and put all your websites and blogs ... More About: Building , Build , Rust
WriteToMyBlog Testing an Online Editor
2007-04-16 05:23:00 I don’t know where I ran into this site. Just trolling around one day. I put a link to it and haven’t been back since. I was getting caught up with my reading over at the Tomato and found Jim Cronin writing about MS Word gumming up the blogworks of all things. Must have been a slow ... More About: Write , Testing , Blog , Online , Edit
Single Property Websites No Conundrum
2007-04-15 00:11:00 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 property sites. Done wrong they will be just like any other website. They won’t be found ... More About: Website , Site , Websites , Webs
Oro Valley Real Estate Hosting
2007-04-03 02:44:00 This is the first post of three tied to the creation of Oro Valley Real Estate and associated with this post Oro Valley Real Estate Blog Lives. Google Juice Google Juice is addictive. For those of you that have never experience it and those that wonder what Google Juice is I’ll explain. The older your site The more content ... More About: Hosting , Host , State
Oro Valley Real Estate Blog Lives
2007-04-02 21:47:00 The Oro Valley Real Estate blog is alive. It took several major surgeries on the theme to bring it to life. It still has some shortcomings of infancy to overcome, but for the most part there is a healthy new baby real estate blog in the blogosphere. I’ll share some of the birth ... More About: Real Estate , Blog , Live , State
Google TiSP Going with the Flow Free Broadband
2007-04-01 08:56:00 That’s right you heard it here first of April 2007 Google releases Free Google TiSP Broadband . What an amazing application of modern commodel communication. What a fanastic idea. I signed up for my kit just now. I can hardly wait to get rid of this old cable modem wireless router technology. I’m going all the way ... More About: Band , With
Publish, Take it back, So You think
2007-03-26 23:46:00 I was testing the CMA plugin from Realivent last week. I put a page up on the Tucson Real Estate in The News with the CMA plugin on it. The page was supposed to have an introductory paragraph about the CMA, but when I published the page it wasn’t there. I didn’t have time to look at ... More About: Take , Back , Publish , Think
Brother MFC-5460CN Much Less Than a Printer
More articles from this author:2007-03-26 07:35:00 Follow the Logic Brick Road I’ve never been the kind of person to use a knife for a screwdriver, well maybe a couple of times. But that’s not the point. While the ladies of the house might go to the mall to “Shop” they wonder why I don’t want to come along. You know, walking from store ... More About: Inter , Other , Print , Printer , Much 1, 2, 3 |
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