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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
Launching A New Theme
2008-06-09 03:46:00 There are any number of reasons you want or need a new theme for your blog. Some themes limit functionality and some are not easy to upgrade or customize. The reason for change isn't as important as the process you go through to successfully change the theme of your blog. More About: Theme
Disqus your Comments
2008-05-31 00:20:00 I went to the Disqus website and created an account and set up two blogs and installed the Wordpress plugin here at the lab. Then I got to thinking before I clicked remove all comments, just what does that mean remove all comments? Therefore I made a strategic decision, this Lab experiment would be done on one of my lab rats and not on the lab itself. More About: Comments , Twitter
Rotating Header Images
2008-05-29 07:28:00 Keeping things fresh, adding new content and providing a little eye candy in the process makes coming to your blog an interesting experience. More About: Images , Header , Rotating
Google PR Update Appearing
2008-04-29 02:24:00 I noticed about twenty minutes ago a change in PR being reported in my toolbar. The Lab has a PR5 (today). One of my other blogs has moved from 3 to 4 for the home page. I haven’t checked any of the others yet. I’ll also be looking at inner pages and posts for changes up or down. Just ... More About: Google , Update
Trolling for Links vs Being a Backlink Troll
2008-04-22 21:42:00 There are plenty of spammers and short cut artist in the net taking a good tool and using it for less than honorable purposes. So why not take a Troll s tool and use it for a good purpose. Marc Rasmassun made a good point about wanting to put his efforts into commenting where it will ... More About: Links
Check Your Google Webmaster Tools Often
2008-04-21 19:47:00 We get busy. It happens. I know because it happens to me. I have a routine I usually go through at the start and the end of the day. It varies little, making sure everything is up and running for the hours I’m shut down. Sometimes though a piece of that routine ... More About: Google , Tools , Webmaster Tools , Webmaster , Check
Comment Kahuna Great Way to be Banned
2008-04-20 05:59:00 Lately, I’ve seen more and more comments coming into the lab and my other RE sites there were obvious to me the post hadn’t been read at all. Today I ran across this “Free” tool for creating instant great backlinks to your site. The little video created to tell about this “tool” has some obvious ... More About: Great , Comment , Banned
Don?t Be A Real Estate Blog John
2008-04-04 21:25:00 Please, please, please, if you have a blog be a blogger, but don't have a blog and pay someone to blog for you. It will hurt you more than anything else because in the end you will appear to be a phony. More About: A Real Estate , Estate , Real Estate , Blog , John
Control Key Plus Scroll Equal BIGGER Text
2008-04-04 02:24:00 Late to the Party, are you kidding me, for most of my life I didn't even know there was a party. More About: Text , Equal , Control
Hyper Local Target Marketing with Images
2008-03-11 21:03:00 If you don't take picture and aren't interested in Photography keep reading. The principle I'm going to talk about has a wider application than just photography. However, if you have or want to start a Hyper Local Real Estate Blog I would recommend you get a camera and start taking pictures of what is going on in your community. More About: Marketing , Images , Flickr , Target
Hyper Local Target Marketing Driving Traffic or Herding It
2008-03-10 01:41:00 Traffic Addiction Deprogramming What is your market? WHAT is your MARKET? WHAT IS YOUR MARKET? Yes, I'm shouting at you to break the spell or Traffic Addiction. You can not target your market if you have not defined your market. More About: Marketing , Traffic , Driving , Local , Target
Splogs A Rite of Passage
2008-02-29 02:58:00 When I first started blogging about 18 months ago I heard the term "splog" from time to time in a rather derogatory manner. I had no idea what splogging and scrapping were all about. Then I heard the term "Content Thieves" now that made sense.
Google Content Analysis Tool
2008-02-29 01:01:00 I was in my Google Webmaster Tool s yesterday clicking around as the PR update continues to make its way from data center to data center. I've often found a correlation between PR updates and "New Google Toys" to play with in the Webmaster Tools. Content Analysis with emphasis on Meta Tags and more. More About: Google Webmaster Tools
PicLens One Sweet Add on for Your Browser
2008-02-20 04:39:00 PicLens is hard to describe until you try it and once you do you will never look at images the same way again. You can't use it to view all images (YET) but we can only hope. It works with IE 6+ Firefox (Windows and Mac) or Safari browsers. It works with Google Images, Flickr, Yahoo, and more. More About: Sweet , Browser
Kicking a New Post to the Top of the Search Engines
2008-02-03 16:53:00 You can in some cases get a post that isn't indexed found in search engine results. Is that cool or what! More About: Search Engines , Post , Search , Engines , Kicking
Google Sitemap Stats
2008-01-31 17:42:00 Google went away from the supplemental indexing or at least from reporting the supplemental results. Which left some of us wondering what might be going on. Personally I like having everything in the index or at least most pages and post are doing better these days. More About: Google , Sitemap , Google Webmaster Tools , Stats , Google Sitemap
My Blog Log - Goes Yahoo Gray
2008-01-30 19:21:00 MyBlog Log was purchased recently by Yahoo . I thought okay no big deal, till I had to log into my account and start making changes, like they didn't know what my avatar is so I have to create a new one. Like I can link to my Yahoo account if I want to, etc. etc. More About: Gray , Yahoo!
Restore your WordPress Database From Mysql 4 to Mysql 5
2008-01-30 02:26:00 Is your blog showing its age. Was it created with mysql 4.0 or earlier? Then you know what it is like to click and wait and click and wait to do anything. Follow these simple none destructive steps and you can turbo charge your blog and bring it into the present century and learn how to backup and restore your MYSQL database while you are at it. More About: Wordpress , Database , Mysql , Restore
IE 7 fonts on Firefox and ALL OF YOUR APPLICATIONS!
2008-01-19 21:13:00 The last post here at the Lab was about the font legibility on IE 7 vs Firefox . I looked and looked to find a way to make them as bold and easy to read on FF as on IE 7 to no avail. But now I have a solution and you can get this same ... More About: Applications , Fonts
Firefox and IE 7 Display
2008-01-14 19:29:00 I’ve waited for a very long time to update IE to version 7. Our local MLS software was not compatible with IE 7 when it first came out. I recently checked again to see if any of the recent work they have done on the software changed this. It is now functional with IE 7 ... More About: Firefox , Display
The Chronicle of a Domain Name Change to a Blog
2007-11-22 19:34:00 Steve Belt has a running chronicle of what he went through while changing the ULR Domain Name for his blog. If you are thinking about making this kind of change you should read Steve's post on what you will probably encounter in the process. More About: Domain Name , Change , Blog , Chronicle
Supreme Ruler Feasting & PR
2007-10-30 03:43:00 Need I write or even say the Ruler associated with PR. No not the Price is Right. Some would think it Pretty Risky, or Purposely Ridiculous. It was waited for two month longer than some thought it due. More About: Supreme
SEO De-programmers Needed for RE Bloggers
2007-10-06 17:30:00 I’m going to count backward from 3 and when I get to 1 I want you to wake up. Here we got 3. . . . 2. . . . 1. . . . WAKE UP! There is a growing cult in the Real Estate blogging community. It is the Cult of SEO. More and More RE bloggers are being recruited to this cult almost every day. The seduction begins with “Look into my eyes, I can ... More About: Bloggers , Gram , Programmers
Wordpress 2.3 All-in-One-SEO for Meta Tags in the Header
2007-09-30 01:03:00 Why do I want Meta Tags In the Head At one time these tags had great significance in search engine placement, (Web 1.0). Since it is now generally believed they are for the most part ignored by the search engines (Google) many have stopped using them all together. You can tell the significance WordPress places on them since there is no internal support for Meta Tags in the Header file. So Why do I want them and make such a ... More About: Wordpress , All-in
Wordpress 2.3 Meta & Keyword Tagging
2007-09-29 20:12:00 Wordpress 2.3 Tagging I’m the last person that should be trying to explain tagging in Wordpress. I’ve spent the better part of two days trying to duplicate the way I had tagging set up in the earlier version of Wordpress. It took a great deal of searching but I think I finally have a system that gets me back close to what I had before. First I need to explain what I had set up for tagging and how it ... More About: Wordpress , Keyword , Meta
RE Blog Lab Smoke Everywhere 2.3 WAIT A LITTLE WHILE
2007-09-28 05:53:00 WORDPRESS 2.3 BREAKS MORE THAN IT FIXES BE WARNED! Yep, I did it. I upgraded the lab this afternoon and there is debris and smoke everywhere. The kids making these version must never test some of the basic functionality. You would think they were throwing hand grenades and calling it “Close Enough” lets call it a new version. I call it, lets fix something that isn’t broken and break a bunch of stuff and not tell anyone about it. I’m ... More About: Blog , Smoke , Litt , Wait
Growing Peas in a Day!
2007-09-22 21:18:00 Have you ever tried to grow peas in a day? Did you know you can do it? Layout the rows Dig up the soil Mix into the soil manure and potting soil (Home Depot has both) make a row with the edge of a hoe space the peas to be grown about 10 to 12 inches apart Cover with ... More About: Growing , Peas
Eric Blackwell?s Must Have WordPress Plugins
2007-08-14 17:47:00 Maureen Francis of MIOaklandCounty asked “On another note, I am looking around for any must have WP plugins. Would like to see a bunch of us post what we are using to see what we can learn.” Eric is the first victim volunteer to share his list of plugins and in so doing became ... More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Plugins , Plugins , Plug-ins , Lack
Google I?m in Love with You !
2007-08-10 20:35:00 Have you ever wanted a multi billion dollar company to get your information to the world in seconds and for the amazingly low price of FREE! Last week I wrote the post Googl e Search Results faster than a Speeding Nanite The short of it, I was beginning to notice my blog posts were showing ... More About: Love , With You
RE Photographers Get The Digital Photography Book
More articles from this author:2007-08-04 03:03:00 I recently wrote about the Importance of Tagging your photos in a blog post in “Photos and overlooked part of your blog traffic.” Now I want to talk about taking better digital photos and introduce you to a great book “The Digital Photography Book ”. But first a quick look at what is being said about photography, real ... More About: Photographers , Graph 1, 2, 3 |
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