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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
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
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
Single Property Site - Sidebar Widget
2007-03-26 05:35:00 The Sidebar Widget is essential for quicklysetting up my property sites. This means that I usually pick themes that are already widgetized. Once you activate the plugin go to the presentation tab. There you will see the Sidebar Widget listed. I like having three column layouts for single property sites. I’ll go into the why in the theme’s post. I ... More About: Property , Site , Sing
Single Property Site - Plugins
2007-03-13 23:10:00 Plugins really make setting up a single property site much easier. One Plugin I use heavily is the Sidebar Widget plugin, when you chose a theme you want to make sure it is “Widget ready” or “widgetized” if not you will need to know how to go in and modify the theme code to include ... More About: Property , Plugins , Site , Plugin , Sing
Real Estate Marketing and Video Technology
2007-03-07 02:29:00 “Hi, I know we were coming to town this next weekend, but one of the homes you sent us is really interesting and we see it just came on the market. Could you go over and take some more photos. We want to see all the bedrooms and the inside of the kitchen cabinets if ... More About: Video , Marketing , Technology , Estate , Real Estate
Single Property Site - Categories
2007-03-05 06:05:00 There are two types of categories Cat egories for organizing your posts Categories for organizing your blogroll (links) Wordpress 2.1 changed the way it handles categories behind the scenes and now allows you to create them on the fly. For our purposes they haven’t changed a great deal. For SEO purposes here are my suggestions for Category ... More About: Property , Site , Sing
I?m calling about your ad in the paper
2007-03-01 03:15:00 On weekends when we are planning on holding an open house, yeah, we still hold them live as well as virtual on the net. Anyway, as I was saying, on those weekends we will often run an ad in the paper complete with a photo of the property and details of the property and open house ... More About: The Paper , Your , About , Alli , Paper
Single Property Sites - Video Display
2007-02-28 21:50:00 Lights, Camera, Action, Sound . . . Yeah I added sound, don’t want to be completely cliche ridden. We are in a video world. One of the amazing things to me is the acceptablility of very poor quality video when viewing it on the net. All I hear is “High Def” this and “High Def” that. The ... More About: Video , Property , Play , Site , Sites
Google Site Search
2007-02-28 01:38:00 Have you ever done a Googl e search and when you clicked on a link it went to the homepage of the site and not to the information you were looking for. Most of us take 1 millionth of a second to see it isn’t there and rather than try and find navigation to the page we ... More About: Search , Site
Single Property Sites - Setting up Wordpress
2007-02-27 04:37:00 Setting up the wp-configure.php file Before you can install Word press you have to have a valid MYSQL database setup and you have to create the wp-configure.php file. Here is the current place to go to get The latest version of Wordpress. Wordpress comes with a wp-sample-configure.php file. You can open this using notepad if you don’t have a ... More About: Property , Press , Site
Ordie Tryin Realtor Extarodinaire
2007-02-26 04:48:00 Have you ever heard of Ordie Tryin the Real tor ? He has done a lot of marketing over the years doing his best to represent buyers and sellers in his real estate market. Ordie is one of those old ways are best kind of agent. You know the ones, they farm their chosen area walking from house to ... More About: Arod , Nair , Alto
Comment Spam Trap - Wordpress Plugin
More articles from this author:2007-02-26 01:08:00 I ran across this little beauty a few days ago. The Comment Spam Trap is a Word press plugin that is simple and easy to install. Once installed you just sit back and watch the spam disappear. When I first installed the plugin I set up the plugin to email me the trapped comments. I wanted to ... More About: Press , Men 1, 2, 3, 4 |
