Archive | October, 2006

Getting Your Website listed in DMOZ

30. Oct, 2006 • Categories: "How-To" SEO • by Justin Smith

What the heck is DMOZ???
It is a human edited directory of websites from every category imaginable from all across the web. For a long time, search engines have placed a high importance on any links coming from this directory. Since it is managed by humans, it has a very high success rate when it comes [...]

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Teri Isner Reaches 100k Points on Active Rain – A Real Estate Industry Benchmark

29. Oct, 2006 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

If you are active in the online real estate community these days, you have probably heard of a networking community called Active Rain. It is a wonderful group of real estate professionals from around the country that meet online and network together through blogging on the Active Rain website. Still in the early stages, it [...]

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Experiment: Provide Free Access to MLS Listings for Colorado

21. Oct, 2006 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

ColoradoListings.net
Just wanted to write a quick post about a website we have called ColoradoListings.net. It is an experiment in providing free MLS listings for a particular region with no obligation. There are too many sites out there that make you complete a boring and lengthy application just to view a few MLS listings.
We don’t do [...]

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Neighboroo.com – “Know Your Neighbor”

19. Oct, 2006 • Categories: Real Estate Related • by Justin Smith

Just found a great little visual demographics tool compliments of the Transparent Real Estate Blog.
It isn’t overly detailed, but it does give a pretty good indication on county and city wide statistics. Here are some of the things it will display:
Lifestyle
Politics
Crime
Elem School Rank
Air Quality
Home Price
Apt Rent
Cost of Living
Commute Time
Household Income
Tax Rates
Unemployment
Population Density
White
Hispanic
African American
Asian
American Indian
All of [...]

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Google Launches New Blogger Friendly Search Service

05. Oct, 2006 • Categories: "How-To" SEO, Blogging, Search Engine News • by Justin Smith

Google has just launched a specialized Blog only search portal. http://blogsearch.google.com From what I can see it looks like a very cool way to search for blog content. So often blog content can get watered down and not rank well in the standard serps. It seems like Google is trying to [...]

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