Real Estate blogs

New keyword research video series

by Drew Burks on August 14, 2009 · 1 comment

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If 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 … [...]

Add a school finder to your real estate site

by Peter Toner on August 11, 2009 · 1 comment

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What 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 specific plugin – both offer customization [...]

Even the Godfather couldn’t say no

by Peter Toner on July 31, 2009 · 0 comments

Godfather

Making you an offer you can’t refuse …. don’t worry, we are not discussing horses heads! Social media marketing is now main stream with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Blogging etc. Your clients and potential real estate clients are using these resources to communicate with their friends and spheres – are you utilizing these tools to your [...]

Professional Logo Design at great rates

by Peter Toner on July 16, 2009 · 0 comments

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Get 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 here is [...]

5 Reasons Realtors Fail Online

by Drew Burks on July 8, 2009 · 1 comment

Dart arrows missing target

Poor 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 guarantee you [...]

Is Google ignoring your site?

by Peter Toner on July 2, 2009 · 0 comments

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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 guru’s, you [...]

San Diego Realtors, visit with us

by Peter Toner on June 30, 2009 · 4 comments

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Free 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 make a positive [...]

How we rank in the search engines

by Peter Toner on June 29, 2009 · 2 comments

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We 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 page How [...]

Mobile Marketing for Realtors

by Drew Burks on June 24, 2009 · 1 comment

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Say 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 them [...]

What kind of tail do you have?

by Drew Burks on June 5, 2009 · 6 comments

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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 that describe your niche. [...]

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6 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 and search engine keywords your data always [...]

Carnival of Real Estate – May 26, 2009

by Peter Toner on May 26, 2009 · 5 comments

Racing Car

Welcome 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 of the Carnival of [...]

ActiveRain & Trulia suck

by Peter Toner on May 21, 2009 · 22 comments

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Actually 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 money [...]

Is spying on your visitors ethical?

by Peter Toner on May 13, 2009 · 2 comments

clixpy

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 visitors use their site, [...]

Free IDX for your real estate site!

by Peter Toner on May 5, 2009 · 4 comments

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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 blog sites! We especially [...]

One down, three to go ….

by Drew Burks on April 14, 2009 · 0 comments

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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 modern day, yet [...]

Google tools for your site

by Peter Toner on March 30, 2009 · 0 comments

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

The impact of Social Media

by Peter Toner on March 21, 2009 · 0 comments

James Surowiecki, a staff writer with the New Yorker is a very bright man who discusses the changes in our society …

Real estate search – New MLS rules

by Peter Toner on March 20, 2009 · 2 comments

The whole landscape of online real estate searches has changed with the outcome of the Dept of Justice investigation and settlement with the NAR.

The new consumer

by Peter Toner on March 11, 2009 · 0 comments

The new consumer wants to have a voice, does not want to be sold to ..

Why does Google adore blogs?

by Peter Toner on March 5, 2009 · 0 comments

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Because Google loves new fresh content and they are designed to be search engine friendly.

Just what is PPC?

by Peter Toner on March 1, 2009 · 0 comments

Dollars Down the Drain

Pay Per Click or PPC can lead to financial ruin! OK, well maybe not but we sure got your attention …

Don’t think you can blog?

by Peter Toner on February 27, 2009 · 0 comments

Yes, she blogs with her left thumb – she is incredibly inspirational – still say you can’t blog?

I am not a lead, not now, not ever

by Peter Toner on February 6, 2009 · 0 comments

When you are writing copy for your blog or real estate website ..